The removal of rent control and its impact on search and mismatching costs: evidence from Oslo

What is it about?

The paper aim to study how tenants and landlords use newspaper advertisements to fine a place to live or a tenant and how this changed after the removal of the rent control.

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Why is it important?

Our results indicate that it is more costly, in time and money, for a potential tenant to search for and to find a home under rent control.