TY  - RPRT
A1  - Borck, Rainald
A1  - Gohl, Niklas
T1  - Gentrification and Affordable Housing Policies
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - We use a quantitative spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the distributional and welfare impacts of a recent temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in particular the recent gentrification of inner city locations. As expected, gentrification benefits rich homeowners, while poor renter households lose. Our counterfactual analysis mimicks the rent control policy. We find that this policy reduces welfare for rich and poor households and in fact, the percentage change in welfare is largest for the poorest households. We also study alternative affordable housing policies such as subsidies and re-zoning policies, which are better suited to address the adverse consequences of gentrification.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 39 
KW  - rent control
KW  - housing market
KW  - gentrification
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-529300
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 39
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Bachelet, Marion
A1  - Kalkuhl, Matthias
A1  - Koch, Nicolas
T1  - What if working from home will stick?
BT  - Distributional and climate impacts for Germany
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest experiment in working from home. We study how persistent telework may change energy and transport consumption and costs in Germany to assess the distributional and environmental implications when working from home will stick. Based on data from the German Microcensus and available classifications of working-from-home feasibility for different occupations, we calculate the change in energy consumption and travel to work when 15% of employees work full time from home. Our findings suggest that telework translates into an annual increase in heating energy expenditure of 110 euros per worker and a decrease in transport expenditure of 840 euros per worker. All income groups would gain from telework but high-income workers gain twice as much as low-income workers. The value of time saving is between 1.3 and 6 times greater than the savings from reduced travel costs and almost 9 times higher for high-income workers than low-income workers. The direct effects on CO₂ emissions due to reduced car commuting amount to 4.5 millions tons of CO₂, representing around 3 percent of carbon emissions in the transport sector.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 41 
KW  - commuting
KW  - home office
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - energy expenditure
KW  - carbon emissions
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532384
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 41
ER  -