Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127469 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 16-012
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
Most countries show a residency discount in rents for sitting tenants. In the wake of strong rent increases and housing shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this paper estimates panel OLS and quantile regressions of rents within tenancies. The results show that rents deflated by the CPI increase strongly from 1984 until the reform in 2001, and there is a reversal in the trend afterwards. Before the reform, there is a significant residence discount which decreases in absolute value with tenure. The reform reduces rents, in particular for expensive apartments and for new leases. There is no residency discount after the reform.
Subjects: 
linked housing-tenant data
rent regression
length of residency discount
rent control
quantile regression
JEL: 
R31
C21
C23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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