The Effect of Short-Term Rentals on Local Consumption Amenities: Evidence from Madrid

This paper investigates the impact of the arrival of Airbnb on the local consumption amenities in Madrid. We exploit the exogenous variation created by the timing and the unequal distribution of Airbnb listings across the urban geography to identify its effects on food and beverage establishments. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find positive local effects on both the number of restaurants and their employees: an increase in ten Airbnb rooms in a given census tract translates int...

The “Avicennian Pandemic” in Context: Insights into the Spread of Avicenna’s Logic in the Islamicate World

By the 12th century CE, Avicennian philosophy was increasingly insinuating itself in the curricula of study of the educational institutions in the Islamicate world. Muslim theologians even compared its unprecedented and unparalleled diffusion to the spread of a disease – an ‘Avicennian pandemic’ (“pandemie avicennienne”), to borrow an expression coined by Yahya Michot. Among the disciplines that Muslim theologians looked at with the greatest concern is logic, which, as they complained, had ma...

Avicenna’s Theory of Universal Predicables at the Crossroads of Logic and Metaphysics: Greek Sources and Arabic Innovations

“A Discipline or Part of a Discipline”: Logic on the Border of Metaphysics and Psychology in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ

Avicenna’s ground-breaking view of logic as both a tool for other sciences and a science in its own right has already attracted the scholars’ attention and has been studied under several different respects. The present paper aims to address a specific issue entailed by considering logic as a science in its own right: that is, assessing the relation in which logic as a science stands to the other sciences, and particularly to metaphysics and psychology. The inquiry will focus on a fundamental,...