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The rise of the sharing economy has generated great regulatory challenges. The European Union (EU) has to perform a fine balancing act. On the one hand, it has to safeguard weaker parties, consumers and workers, ensuring they enjoy fair treatment by adopting proper regulatory responses. On the...
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Das private Teilen von Ressourcen durch die Möglichkeiten der sog. Sharing Economy ist ökonomisch prinzipiell sehr sinnvoll. Durch eine auch von den betroffenen Branchen betriebene Lobbyarbeit unterstützte Politik wird das private Teilen in Deutschland jedoch erheblich erschwert, obgleich...
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For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement on how to define and measure the sharing economy, and no consensus on whether the sharing economy...
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services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey …
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A monopolist platform (the principal) shares profits with a population of affiliates (the agents), heterogeneous in skill, by offering them a common nonlinear contract contingent on individual revenue. The principal cannot discriminate across individual skill, but knows its distribution and aims...
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This study aims at identifying guests’ willingness to pay for characteristics of listings on Airbnb, putting a … applied to an extensive dataset that was gathered in 2017 from Airbnb’s website and encompasses listings from seven major …
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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 … Airbnb supply has a much larger impact on rents and long-term rental supply for the first reform. This is consistent with more …
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