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Refereed essays Web of Science
Transitioning to a net-zero economy requires a nuanced understanding of homeowners’ decision-making pathways when considering the adoption of Low Carbon Technologies (LCTs). These LCTs present both personal and collective benefits, with positive perceptions critically influencing attitudes and intentions. Our study analyses the relationship between two primary benefits: the household-level financial ...
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Energy Research & Social Science
108 (2024), 103388, 14 S.
| Fabian Scheller, Karyn Morrissey, Karsten Neuhoff, Dogan Keles
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Diskussionspapiere 2094 / 2024
Urban areas confront a chronic shortage of housing, especially in the low-rent segment. This precarious situation is further exacerbated by major challenges, like the destruction of housing by wars and natural catastrophes, rapid increase of demand, or pandemics cutting incomes. In response, the authorities implement rent control that slows rent increases or even freezes rents. Rent control is ubiquitous, ...
2024| Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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DIW Weekly Report 1/2 / 2024
High construction prices and worsened financing conditions are weighing on the construction industry, especially build-ing construction. Despite a nominal increase of six percent in construction expenses in 2023, it decreased by just over one percent in inflation-adjusted terms. In 2024, the nominal construction volume is likely to contract by around 3.5 percent, declining for the first time since ...
2024| Martin Gornig, Laura Pagenhardt
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 solutions, directing their attention to controling housing rents and other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does it create more damage than utility? ...
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Journal of Housing Economics
63 (2024), 101983, 19 S.
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Objectives Housing is an important social determinant of health, but the perspectives of asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) in large, centralised reception centres remain under-researched. We therefore sought to examine which housing aspects in reception centres are deemed relevant for health by ASR in Germany.MethodsBased on 47 interviews with 42 ASR in Germany originating from three different studies, ...
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SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
5 (2024), 100407, 10 S.
| Eilin Rast, Maren Hintermeier, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Louise Biddle
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
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Management Science
70 (2024), 3, S. 1901-1923
| Anja M. Hahn, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sofie R. Waltl, Marco Fongoni
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The comparative study of housing decommodification lags behind classical welfare state research, while housing research itself is rich in homeownership studies but lacks comparative accounts of private and social rentals due to missing comparative data. Building on existing works and various primary sources, this study presents a new collection of up to forty-eight countries’ social housing shares ...
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Journal of Social Policy
53 (2024), 4, S. 970–996
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller
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Infographic
22.08.2023
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This paper relates incomplete price competition among real estate agents to inattentive home sellers. I exploit a recent legal reform in Germany which specifically aimed to increase price competition among real estate agents by raising the cost salience of sellers. I find that the reform backfired and real estate agents exploited the transition to increase their total commission rate by 0.3...
03.05.2023| Julius Stoll, Hertie School
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Research Project
The interdisciplinary linking of data from different sources from different knowledge disciplines through linked (research) data infrastructure services has become more and more important. As part of the pioneering project “Social and Spatial Research Data Infrastructure (SoRa),” a technical and organizational infrastructure was developed to ensure the prototypical linking of the research data...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study