“It’s Time for a Rent Strike”: COVID-19 Rent Strikes and the Absence of State Care

ITS for Rent

Daihatsu Motor Company, in conjunction with the Japan Electric Vehicle Association, also carried out a small-scale EV demonstration in Japan some 20 years ago. In recent years, Japanese corporations and researchers have conducted a succession of demonstrations of shared small EVs. Leading the way was Honda’s field trial of its Intelligent Community Vehicle System in 1998 at its Motegi recreatio...

Rent Strikes and the Law: The Ann Arbor Experience

The Munich Rent Advisor

The city government of Munich regularly publishes a booklet called the “Mietspiegel” (MS). The MS basically contains a verbal description of an expert system. It allows to calculate the estimated fair rent for a flat. By hand, one may need a weekend to do so. With our computerized version, “The Munich Rent Advisor”, the user just fills in a form in a few minutes and the rent is calculated immed...

Rent-Seeking and Innovation

Innovations and their adoption are the keys to growth and development. Innovations are less socially useful, but more profitable for the innovator, when they are adopted slowly and the innovator remains a monopolist. For this reason, rent-seeking, both public and private, plays an important role in determining the social usefulness of innovations. This paper examines the political economy of in...

The Functional Rent Advisor

Most cities in Germany regularly publish a booklet called \Mietspiegel" that allows calculating an estimate of the fair rent for a at. The Functional Rent Advisor (FRA) extends the functionality and applicability of the \Mietspiegel" for the city of Munich so that the user needs not to give all required information. The FRA is implemented using the high-level purely functional language Haskell....