This paper reviews the rapidly growing research in the area of the sharing economy. Considerable confusion exists about what constitutes the sharing economy, what has caused its growth, and which terms best describe the phenomenon, while the appearance of papers in different disciplines has...

We provide new evidence that short-term rental (STR) platforms like Airbnb incentivize residential real estate investment. We exploit two complementary identification strategies. First, we use variation in the timing of STR regulations to estimate the effect of regulation on both Airbnb listings...

We empirically study whether firms improve their quality based on online customer reviews in a dynamic quality environment. We do so by analyzing the U.S. hotel industry using data from two major online review platforms: Tripadvisor and Expedia. Using management response as a proxy for whether...