Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We...

Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We...

Große digitale Plattformen wie Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google und Microsoft haben die technischen Möglichkeiten, umfangreiche Daten ihrer NutzerInnen zu sammeln. Beim Surfen im Internet kann dies durch das Laden kleinerer Programme und Identifikatoren wie Cookies geschehen, die das Beobachten...

Seit rund zehn Jahren steigen in Berlin die Mietpreise von Wohnimmobilien stark an. Kurzzeitvermietungen über Vermittlungsplattformen wie Airbnb stehen im Verdacht diese Entwicklung weiter zu befeuern. Tatsächlich zeigen Schätzungen: Durch eine zusätzliche Airbnb-Unterkunft steigen im...

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 year, the second intervention led to the exit of...

The rise of dominant firms in data driven industries is often credited to their alleged data advantage. Empirical evidence lending support to this conjecture is surprisingly scarce. In this paper we document that data as an input into machine learning tasks display features that support the...

The rise of online platforms has disrupted numerous traditional industries. A prime example is the short-term accommodation platform Airbnb and how it affects the hotel industry. On the one hand, consumers can profit from Airbnb due to an increased number of choices and lower prices. On the...

Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We...