These notes were prepared to explore ideas developed in a panel discussion at Financial Cryptography 2007.

Industrial districts as local networks of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) rooted their competitiveness in a mix of economic relationships and social ties. Recently, network technologies (ICT) have promised gains of efficiency through a reduction in transaction costs and showed new commercial opportunities for small firms. Despite the attention given to transactions managed electronically, a...

We include learning in a standard equilibrium business cycle model with explicit growth. We use the model to study how the economy’s agents could learn in real time about the important trend-changing events of the postwar era in the U.S., such as the productivity slowdown, increased labor force participation by women, and the “new economy” of the 1990s. We find that a large fraction of the obse...

Uber is a popular ride-sharing application that matches people who need a ride (or riders) with drivers who are willing to provide it using their personal vehicles. Despite its growing popularity, there exist few studies that examine large-scale Uber data, or in general the factors affecting user participation in the sharing economy. We address this gap through a study of the Uber market that a...

Trust has been found as the key determinant of consumer decisions in sharing economy platforms, and service-provider’s attributesare crucial fortrust building but rarelystudied. In this paper, we investigate the effect of host’s attributes on consumer’s purchasing behaviors in xiaozhu.com, a leading short rental platform in China. Specifically, we argue that host’s attributescan influencetrustw...

Recycling economy is a kind of economy that melts clean production and the comprehensive utilization of waste. Its nature is a kind of ecological economy. Ecological economy is a kind of economy of sustainable development. It emphasizes the co-adaptation and mutual promoting and coordination of recycling economy and ecological economy. By analyzing the difference and relation of recycling econo...

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The Sharing Economy (SE) is a growing ecosystem focusing on peer-to-peer enterprise. In the SE the information available to assist individuals (users) in making decisions focuses predominantly on community generated trust and reputation information. However, how such information impacts user judgement is still being understood. To explore such effects, we constructed an artificial SE accommodat...

The article discusses the importance of two-way online rating systems as one of the pillars of the sharing-economy, transforming strangers into trustable providers and customers. The article ́s objective is to apply the concepts and practice based lens developed by Orlikowski and Scott (2014) to a two-way rating system by adding the provider evaluation of their clients. The article also explores...

Background: The notion of smart city has grown popular over the past few years. It embraces several dimensions depending on the meaning of the word “smart” and benefits from innovative applications of new kinds of information and communications technology to support communal sharing. Methods: By relying on prior literature, this paper proposes a conceptual framework with three dimensions: (1) h...