"How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities? Locating the origins and success of Airbnb in the … neighborhoods from the increasing professionalization and commercialization of Airbnb. The book argues that the most disruptive … impact of Airbnb and short-term rentals has been on housing and neighborhoods in urban centers where housing markets are …

, 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 …