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Learning in peer-to-peer markets: evidence from Airbnb

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Previous issue date: 2016-03-30 / Peer-to-peer markets are highly uncertain environments due to the constant presence of shocks. As a consequence, sellers have to constantly adjust to these shocks. Dynamic Pricing is hard, especially for non-professional sellers. We study it in an accommodation rental marketplace, Airbnb. With scraped data from its website, we: 1) describe pricing patterns consistent with learning; 2) estimate a demand model and use it to simulate a dynamic pricing model. We simulate it under three scenarios: a) with learning; b) without learning; c) with full information. We have found that information is an important feature concerning rental markets. Furthermore, we have found that learning is important for hosts to improve their profits.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:bibliotecadigital.fgv.br:10438/16568
Date January 2016
CreatorsWu, Edson An An
ContributorsGorno, Leandro, Caldieraro, Fabio, Escolas::EPGE, Demais unidades::RPCA, FGV, Trindade, André Garcia de Oliveira
Source SetsIBICT Brazilian ETDs
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Sourcereponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, instname:Fundação Getulio Vargas, instacron:FGV
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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