Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since 2010s, it has been experiencing a true renaissance, for many cities and countries facing housing shortage are desperately looking for solutions of the chronic housing shortage and direct their attention to controlling housing rents and to other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does it create ...
Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since the 2010s, it is experiencing a true renaissance, for many cities and countries facing chronic housing shortages are desperately looking for solution, directing their attention to controling housing rents and other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does it create more damage than utility? ...
This paper investigates the dynamic effects of tax changes on the cross-sectional distribution of disposable income in the United States using a narrative identification approach. I distinguish between changes in personal and corporate income taxes and quantify the distributional effects on families and business owners. I document that tax changes affect incomes along the distribution differently and ...
DIW-Studie untersucht erstmals zyklische Änderungen bei der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland – Ungleichheit schwankt temporär parallel zum Konjunkturzyklus: Sie sinkt in Krisenzeiten und nimmt in Aufschwüngen wieder zu – Schwankungen sind vor allem den Gewinnen und Verlusten ganz hoher Einkommen geschuldet – Wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen mildern Einbußen ...
Political measures at the level of the European Union are intended, among other things, to ensure the stability of the economic and monetary union. This includes, for example, the establishment of the European Recovery Fund, which can be a first step towards a fiscal union in the Eurozone. The project examines how these, and other economic policy measures affect inequality between households. The...
Durch politische Maßnahmen auf der Ebene der Europäischen Union soll unter anderem die Stabilität der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion sichergestellt werden. Dazu gehört zum Beispiel die Einrichtung des Europäischen Wiederaufbaufonds, der ein erster Schritt zu einer Fiskalunion in der Eurozone sein kann. Im Projekt wird untersucht, wie sich diese und weitere wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen auf die...