What is the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health? Although economists and policymakers are certain about the health implications of housing upgrades, empirical evidence is largely missing or else only based on small-scale experiments in developing countries. This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates based on a large-scale refurbishment program that ...
As research indicates a gap between complex scientific measures of accessibility and simpler proxies used by firms, this paper analyses the impact of several market access indicators on the location decision of firms. It compares the role of inter- and intra-industry agglomeration as proxies of access with a newly developed gravity-based indicator incorporating transport distances and industry relations. ...
In 2020, Berlin introduced a rigorous rent-control policy responding to soaring prices by capping rents: the Mietendeckel (rent freeze). The German Constitutional Court revoked the policy only one year later. Although successful in lowering rents during its duration, the consequences for Berlin’s rental market and close-by markets are per se not clear. This article evaluates the short-term causal supply-side ...
Mit dem Königsteiner Schlüssel werden Ausgaben und Aufgaben zwischen den Ländern in Deutschland verteilt. Zur Berechnung des Schlüssels wird der Bevölkerungsanteil zu einem Drittel und die Wirtschaftskraft der Länder zu zwei Dritteln angesetzt. Als Wirtschaftskraft werden die Steuereinnahmen der Länder herangezogen. Jedoch wird zur Berechnung des Königsteiner Schlüssels das Steueraufkommen nach Umverteilung ...
Private rental markets have become increasingly important since the Global Financial Crisis 2008–2009 and rent controls are back on the political agenda. Yet, they have received less attention from housing scholars than homeownership and public housing. This paper presents new data on the development of private tenancy legislation based on a content-coding of rent control, protection of tenants from ...
In der vorangegangenen Ausgabe der DIW-Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung standen vornehmlich direkt von der Coronakrise betroffene Finanzmarktakteure im Fokus. Der vorliegende Band erweitert die Perspektive um Analysen zur realwirtschaftlichen Bedeutung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) in Zeiten exogener Schocks sowie um weitere ökonomische Herausforderungen im Nachgang der ...