Tuesday, June 9, 2026 13:30 - 14:45

This event is both online and in person.

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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About this event

Price regulation redistributes surplus through market interventions, yet its welfare effects are rarely assessed by explicitly tracing both gains and losses. This paper studies the recent rent control experiment implemented in France between 2019 and 2026 to jointly measure benefits to tenants, losses to landlords, and fiscal costs. Using the staggered introduction of local rent control, quasi-exhaustive data on rental listings, and administrative records linking tenants and landlords, we estimate short-run rent reductions and characterize the policy?s redistributive incidence across income groups.

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Directions

This event will take place in SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH.

Online participants are welcome:
Please sign up to our mailinglist (seminar_ceplab) to receive event updates and a link to the seminar online.

The building is labelled SAL on the LSE campus map. You can also find us on Google Maps. For further information, go to contact us.

Labour Markets Workshops are part of the CEP's Labour Markets programme.