Some relevant Spanish Websites

• Pentagrowth: the 5 levels of exponential growth, by Xavi Creus.  Report (ES)
• Consumo Colaborativo, by Albert Cañigueral
• Derecho.Competencia: Blog on European and Spanish regulation and competition law
• Gabriel Doménech. Professor of Administrative Law, University of Valencia.
  • Sharing Economy and Regulatory Strategies towards Legal Change. October 2016
  • La regulacion de la economia colaborativa. El caso Uber contra el taxi. (ES)
  • La regulacion de la economia colaborativa en el transporte urbano de pasajeros (ES)
• Andrés Boix-Palop. University of Valencia. Blog.
  • Competitive Risks in the Sharing Economy and the European Union Market Regulation
• Adrián Todolí. Blog on Labour law.

Other relevant Websites & Resources

• FTC Report: The “Sharing” Economy. Issues Facing Platforms, Participants & Regulators. November 17, 2016.
• USA. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Sharing Economy Tax Center
• Sharing España. Spanish marketplaces’ Association
• OuiShare  (EN) /  (FR) /  (ES).  Research projects:
  • Listening to Sharing Economy initiatives (2015)
  • Sharevolution
  • Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy. (2012)
• McKinsey
  • Oct. 2106
  • Dec 2015
• UK non-paper on the sharing economy. July 2015.

Some relevant papers on Sharing Economy

Academia

• General Regulation on Sharing Economy
  • Sharing Economy and Regulatory Strategies towards Legal Change. October 2016
  • “Dependent Contractors” in the Gig Economy: A Comparative Approach. October 2016
  • Why Buy When You Can Borrow – An Analysis of Sharing Economy Participation from a Practice Theory Perspective
  • On the Sharing Economy
  • The City as Commons: a Policy Reader
  • Transcending the sharing economy
  • Does This Change Everything? – Sustainable Consumer Practice in the Digital Age
  • The Collaborative Economy: A Disruptive Innovation or Much Ado about Nothing?
  • Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the «Sharing Economy»
  • Paradoxes of Openness and Distinction in the Sharing Economy
  • The Political Economy of the Sharing Economy
  • Facing the Challenge of Collaborative Consumption in Europe: A Time for Independent Metrics
  • Technologies for Sharing: lessons from Quantified Self about the political economy of platforms
• Mobility
  • La regulacion de la economia colaborativa. El caso Uber contra el taxi. (ES)
  • La regulacion de la economia colaborativa en el transporte urbano de pasajeros (ES)
  • Driving in the Gig Economy: Road to Freedom or Übercapitalism?
  • Design and Identities: the Case of Carsharing
  • Access Based Consumption: The Case of Car Sharing
  • Uber law and awareness by design . An empirical study on online platforms and dehumanised negotiations
• Accommodation
  • Nuevos modelos de negocio en el sector turístico: Indicaciones del escenario p2p (ES)
  • The sharing economy and its role in metropolitan tourism
  • Impacts of Peer-to-Peer Accommodation Use on Travel Patterns
  • Strategic self-presentation in the sharing economy: Implications for host branding

Internet Policy Review. Journal on Internet regulation

• Regulating the Sharing Economy. June 2016.
• Sharing killed the AVMSD star: the impossibility of European audiovisual media regulation in the era of the sharing economy
• Defining the relevant market in the sharing economy
• Taxis and crowd-taxis: sharing as a private activity and public concern
• Rebalancing interests and power structures on crowdworking platforms
• Sharing without laws: an exploration of social practices and ad hoc labeling standards in online movie piracy

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

• General Regulation on Sharing Economy
  • When Everything is Small: The Regulatory Challenge of Scale in the Sharing Economy. November 7, 2016
  • Future of the Internet of Things in Mission Critical Applications. November 2, 2016.
  • Reputation and Feedback Systems in Online Platform Markets. October 2016
  • On Sharing and Quasi-Sharing: The Tension between Sharing-Economy Practices, Public Policy and Regulation. October 11, 2016.
  • Peer-to-Peer Markets. October 2016
  • Competitive Risks in the Sharing Economy and the European Union Market Regulation, October 15, 2016.
  • Crowdfunding Investment Contracts. September 12, 2016
  • Regulation Tomorrow: What Happens When Technology is Faster than the Law? September 4, 2016.
  • Data Stewardship: Data Sharing and (EU) Privacy Legislation. August 26, 2016
  • The Myth of the Sharing Economy and Its Implications for Regulating Innovation. August 23, 2016
  • Discussion Draft of a Directive on Online Intermediary Platforms. August 11, 2016
  • Regulating the Sharing Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue. July 28, 2016.
  • Should Internet Companies Like Uber and Airbnb Be Regulated? July 22, 2016
  • Digital Trust and Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Consumption Platforms: A Mediation Analysis. July 22, 2016
  • Legislating for Decentralized Marketplaces. July 11, 2016
  • It’s Time for Spain to Embrace the Sharing Economy – An Outsider’s Perspective. July 16, 2016.
  • Enabling the Digital Economy. July 9, 2016.
  • The Sharing Economy as an Urban Phenomenon. June 30, 2016
  • Collaborative Consumption: Conceptual Snapshot at a Buzzword. June 23, 2016
  • The Rise of Big Data and the Loss of Privacy. June 15, 2016
  • The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the ‘Sharing Economy’. June 10, 2016
  • Introduction: Crowdsourcing, the Gig-Economy and the Law. April 20, 2016
  • Regulation 2.0: The Marriage of New Governance and Lex Informatica. March 10, 2016
  • Regulating Sharing: The Sharing Economy as an Alternative Capitalist System. March 8, 2016.
  • The Law of the Platform. March 4,2016.
  • Sharing and the City.  March 3, 2016
  • Regulatory Entrepreneurship. March 3, 2016.
  • The Sharing Economy: Understanding and Challenges. March 1, 2016
  • First Principles for Regulating the Sharing Economy.  February 22, 2016.
  • To Share or Not to Share: Adjustment Dynamics in Sharing Markets.  February 12, 2016
  • Regulating the Sharing Economy: New and Old Insights into an Oversight Regime for the Peer-to-Peer Economy. February 7, 2016
  • Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?.  November 24, 2015
  • Share, Own, Access. November 8, 2015
  • Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing: Implications for Ownership, Usage and Social Welfare in the Sharing Economy. October 5, 2015
  • User Patronage: The Return of the Gift in the ‘Crowd Society’.  September 10, 2015
  • The Sharing Economy: Issues Facing Platforms, Participants, and Regulators.  May 26, 2015.
  • Shared Spatial Regulating in Sharing-Economy Districts.  February 11, 2015.
  • A First Look at Online Reputation on Airbnb, Where Every Stay is Above Average. January 28, 3015.
  • Innovation-Friendly Regulation: The Sunset of Regulation, the Sunrise of Innovation.  November 1, 2014
  • Does Sharing Mean Caring? Regulating Innovation in the Sharing Economy. September 7, 2014
  • Will the Global Village Fracture into Tribes: Recommender Systems and Their Effects on Consumers. April 1, 2014
• Consumers regulation
  • The Rise of the Platform Economy: A New Challenge for EU Consumer Law?  February 15, 2016
  • The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation: The Case for Policy Change.  May 15, 2015
• Mobility
  • Do Ride-Sharing Services Affect Traffic Congestion? An Empirical Study of Uber Entry. August 30, 2016
  • The UBER-Cartel? UBER between Labour and Competition Law.  August 21, 2016
  • The Uber Million Dollar Question: Are Uber Drivers Employees or Independent Contractors? April 6, 2016
  • The Tax Lives of Uber Drivers: Evidence from Internet Discussion Forums. February 10, 2016.
  • Uber’s Drivers: Information Asymmetries and Control in Dynamic Work. October 15, 2015
  • Like Uber, But for Local Governmental Policy: The Future of Local Regulation of the ‘Sharing Economy’. January 14, 2015
  • Uber and the Law. October 24, 2015
  • Regulating Ride-Sharing in the Peer Economy. June 23, 2015
  • The Social Costs of Uber. January 31, 2015
  • Tax Regulation, Transportation Innovation, and the Sharing Economy. December 15, 2014
  • Ride on! Mobility Business Models for the Sharing Economy. November 5, 2014
• Accommodation
  • Hotel Chains and the Sharing Economy in Global Tourism. October 2016
  • The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry, June 09, 2016
  • Travel Intermediaries and Responsibility for Compliance with EU Travel Law: A Scattered Legal Picture.May 29, 2016
  • Who Benefits from the ‘Sharing’ Economy of Airbnb. February 16, 2016.
  • Owning, Using and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the Sharing Economy. February 10, 2016
  • Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets in the Sharing Economy.  October 6, 2015.
  • Hotels vs. Peer-to-Peer Accommodation Rentals: Text Analytics of Consumer Reviews in Portland, Oregon.  April 10, 2015.
  • Airbnb and the Housing Segment of the Modern ‘Sharing Economy’: Are Short-Term Rental Restrictions an Unconstitutional Taking?. March 1, 2015.
  • Transferable Sharing Rights: A Theoretical Model for Regulating Airbnb and the Short-Term Rental Market. October 24, 2014.
• Work and employment
  • The Gig Economy & The Future of Employment and Labor Law. October 10, 2016.
  • The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation?  May 17, 2016
  • El Impacto De La ‘Uber Economy’ En Las Relaciones Laborales. Uber Economy Impact on the Industrial Relationships. December 18, 2015
  • El contrato de trabajo en el S. XXI. Employment Contract at the XXI Century. November 2, 2015.
  • Regulating Employment Relationships in the Sharing Economy. September 8, 2015
  • Commoditized Workers. Case Study Research on Labour Law Issues Arising from a Set of ‘On-Demand/Gig Economy’ Platforms. July 1, 2015.
  • Worker (Mis)Classification in the Sharing Economy: Trying to Fit Square Pegs in Round Holes. May 15, 2015
  • The Social Costs of Uber. January 31, 2015
• Taxes
  • The Tax Lives of Uber Drivers: Evidence from Internet Discussion Forums. February 10, 2016.
  • Can Sharing Be Taxed?  September 10, 2015
  • Tax Regulation, Transportation Innovation, and the Sharing Economy. December 15, 2014
• Energy
  • Sharing Energy: Dealing with Regulatory Disconnect in Dutch Energy Law. September 23, 2016

Other papers

• Mercatus Research: Rethinking Taxi Regulations: The Case for Fundamental Reform
• Freelancing in America Report (2016)
• Kelly services: Reshaping the workforce