-term accommodation platform Airbnb and how it affects the hotel industry. On the one hand, consumers can profit from Airbnb due to an … Airbnb and hotels as well as quantifying consumer welfare gains from Airbnb is important to inform the debate on necessary … platform regulation. In this paper, we analyze competition between hotels and Airbnb listings as well as the effect of 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 …

We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb … hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi … increased by 8.6%. Before Airbnb introduced the algorithm, white hosts earned $12.16 more in daily revenue than Black hosts …