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The sharing economy and urban property rights

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  • Feng Deng

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The sharing economy is a recent urban phenomenon. This paper explores its impact on urban property rights as well as their long-term interaction. The starting point of the analysis is the spatial matching condition, which requires the owner of a durable good to be spatially close to the renter to execute a deal. More generally, it asks for owners to live close to renters. The short-term impact is that the segregation effect of private property rights in the city is ameliorated. In the long term, an active P2P market will become an important urban amenity, which might be capitalized into property value. In this sense, it contributes to the agglomeration economy that reinforces private property rights at macro level.

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  • Feng Deng, 2019. "The sharing economy and urban property rights," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 3(1), pages 121-136, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:apjors:v:3:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1007_s41685-018-0088-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s41685-018-0088-y
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    Keywords

    Sharing economy; Peer-to-peer market; Durable good; Property rights; Segregation;

    JEL classification:

    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics

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