This study aims at identifying guests’ willingness to pay for characteristics of listings on Airbnb, putting a … applied to an extensive dataset that was gathered in 2017 from Airbnb’s website and encompasses listings from seven major …

We exploit two policy interventions in Berlin, Germany, to causally identify the impact of Airbnb on rental markets …. While the first intervention significantly reduced the number of high-availability Airbnb listings bookable for most of the … Airbnb supply has a much larger impact on rents and long-term rental supply for the first reform. This is consistent with more …

their ecosystems. To better understand the governing role of platforms, we study two Airbnb pro-guest rules that pertain to … guest and host cancellations, using data on Airbnb and VRBO listings in 10 US cities. We demonstrate that such pro …-guest rules can drive demand and supply to and from the platform, as a function of the local platform competition between Airbnb …

, however, challenging. We investigate two policy changes in Berlin to first assess how effective they were in regulating Airbnb … entire homes listed on Airbnb substantially, by eight to ten listings per square kilometer. In particular the introduction of … days per year that Airbnb listings are available for booking. In a second step, we then use this policy-induced change in …