Overcoming Rent by Using Rent: The Challenge of Development

Rent Extraction by Capitalists

The capital income share exceeds the capital output elasticity if capital owners extract rents. Based on a sample of 111 countries during the period 1970-2010, this paper provides estimates of the capital output elasticity and compares these to countries' capital income shares. Three findings arise: (i) for the average country in the sample, the capital income share significantly exceeds the ca...

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...

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....

The Functional Rent AdvisorSlim

The Functional Rent Advisor (FRA) is an intelligent Inter-net application that allows calculating an estimate of the fair rent for a at in Munich. The FRA is a re-implementation of the Munich Rent Advisor FA96] using the high-level purely functional language Haskell. This paper shows that Haskell is appropriate to realize non-trivial Inter-net applications. Simplicity, exibility and rapid proto...

Rent Control