a column by Alberto Bailin Rivares, Peter Gal, Valentine Millot and Stéphane Sorbe for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
While the innovative features of online platforms offer the potential to improve the performance of service sectors, they raise many new challenges for policymakers.
Using Google search data on service industries in ten OECD countries, this column shows that platforms generally stimulate the productivity of incumbent service firms, but the impact crucially depends on the type of platform considered. Productivity gains tend to be lower when a platform is persistently dominant on its market, suggesting that the contestability of platform markets should be promoted in order to maximise their economic benefits.
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Thursday, 27 June 2019
Friday, 6 April 2018
Safeguarding public interests in the platform economy
a column by Koen Frenken, Arnoud van Waes, Magda Smink and Rinie van Est for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
The success of Airbnb and Uber has heralded the rise of online platforms and marketplaces for goods and services. This column identifies public interests that are common to most sharing and gig platforms, and presents a policy framework based on four basic policy options:
I found this fascinating. Mainly, I think, because I am interested in who pays the income tax / national insurance or whatever pertains in whichever country.
The success of Airbnb and Uber has heralded the rise of online platforms and marketplaces for goods and services. This column identifies public interests that are common to most sharing and gig platforms, and presents a policy framework based on four basic policy options:
- enforce existing regulations,
- enact new regulations,
- deregulate, or
- tolerate.
I found this fascinating. Mainly, I think, because I am interested in who pays the income tax / national insurance or whatever pertains in whichever country.
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