Pros and cons of sharing economy regulation. Implications for sustainable city logistics

Sharing economy is a relatively new phenomenon that completely changed urban hospitality market. New providers that operate on the micro scale without any state-controlled quality certificates, offering limited service and using just intermediary brand represent a major competition to incumbent play...

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Published in:Transportation research procedia (Online) 2019, Vol.39, p.398-404
Main Author: Pawlicz, Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Airbnb
peer to peer markets
regulation
sharing economy
Uber
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Summary:Sharing economy is a relatively new phenomenon that completely changed urban hospitality market. New providers that operate on the micro scale without any state-controlled quality certificates, offering limited service and using just intermediary brand represent a major competition to incumbent players. From scholarly perspective sharing economy growth challenges, many pillars of service and transportation economics and one of them is rationale for its regulation. Based on the extensive literature review this paper evaluates the rationale for regulation of sharing economy and provides a typology of arguments both for and against public regulation of sharing economy. The results suggest that (1) there is no universal solution to sharing economy regulation and (2) decision about the regulation characteristics must be taken in the state of imperfect information.
ISSN:2352-1465
2352-1465
DOI:10.1016/j.trpro.2019.06.042