The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its
consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the …

At the tip of the hype cycle, trust-free systems based on blockchain technology promise to
revolutionize interactions between peers that require high degrees of trust, usually facilitated …

Activities within the sharing economy (SE) are in a precarious situation due to the Covid-19
pandemic. Even though the SE is considered a disruptive phenomenon, especially in the …

Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced
the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics …

The growth of the sharing economy has received increasing attention from economists.
Some researchers have examined how these new business models shape market …

Users and potential users of the sharing economy need to place a considerable amount of
trust in both the person and the platform with which they are dealing. The consequences of …

For social analysts, what has come to be called the “sharing economy” raises important
questions. After a discussion of history and definitions, we focus on 3 areas of research in …

The rapid growth of Uber and analogous platform companies has led to considerable
scholarly interest in the phenomenon of platform labor. Scholars have taken two main …

We assess the impact of home-sharing on residential house prices and rents. Using a data
set of Airbnb listings from the entire United States and an instrumental variables estimation …

In the past decade, we have seen a spectacular increase in the number of companies
described as being part of the “sharing economy.” The emerging academic research on the …