Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279243 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10493
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents' agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent displacement of low-income tenants increases agreement. However, while our treatments shift support for the policy into the hypothesized direction, the effect size decreases in misperceptions. Our results suggest that responsiveness to new information depends largely on prior beliefs, which affect perceived credibility and political neutrality of the received information. Mere information provision is therefore not sufficient to effectively alter policy views.
Subjects: 
rent control
efficiency
redistribution
survey experiment
JEL: 
D72
D83
D91
R21
R31
R38
P43
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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