Who benefits from the "sharing" economy of Airbnb?
Conference paper
Quattrone, G., Proserpio, D., Quercia, D., Capra, L. and Musolesi, M. 2016. Who benefits from the "sharing" economy of Airbnb? WWW 2016: 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. Montreal, Canada 11 - 15 Apr 2016 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). pp. 1385-1394 https://doi.org/10.1145/2872427.2874815
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Who benefits from the "sharing" economy of Airbnb? |
Authors | Quattrone, G., Proserpio, D., Quercia, D., Capra, L. and Musolesi, M. |
Abstract | Sharing economy platforms have become extremely popular in the last few years, and they have changed the way in which we commute, travel, and borrow among many other activities. Despite their popularity among consumers, such companies are poorly regulated. For example, Airbnb, one of the most successful examples of sharing economy platform, is often criticized by regulators and policy makers. While, in theory, municipalities should regulate the emergence of Airbnb through evidence-based policy making, in practice, they engage in a false dichotomy: some municipalities allow the business without imposing any regulation, while others ban it altogether. That is because there is no evidence upon which to draft policies. Here we propose to gather evidence from the Web. After crawling Airbnb data for the entire city of London, we find out where and when Airbnb listings are offered and, by matching such listing information with census and hotel data, we determine the socio-economic conditions of the areas that actually benefit from the hospitality platform. The reality is more nuanced than one would expect, and it has changed over the years. Airbnb demand and offering have changed over time, and traditional regulations have not been able to respond to those changes. That is why, finally, we rely on our data analysis to envision regulations that are responsive to real-time demands, contributing to the emerging idea of “algorithmic regulation”. |
Conference | WWW 2016: 25th International Conference on World Wide Web |
Page range | 1385-1394 |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781450341431 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Publication dates | |
11 Apr 2016 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 06 Jul 2018 |
Accepted | 31 Jan 2016 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | © International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in WWW '16: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, April 2016, Pages 1385–1394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/10.1145/2872427.2874815 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1145/2872427.2874815 |
Language | English |
Book title | Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web |
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