The value of flexible work: Evidence from Uber drivers

MK Chen, PE Rossi, JA Chevalier… - Journal of political …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Technology has facilitated new, nontraditional work arrangements, including the ride-
sharing company Uber. Uber drivers provide rides anytime they choose. Using data on …

Geography, transportation, and endogenous trade costs

G Brancaccio, M Kalouptsidi, T Papageorgiou - Econometrica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we study the role of the transportation sector in world trade. We build a spatial
model that centers on the interaction of the market for (oceanic) transportation services and …

Disruptive change in the taxi business: The case of Uber

J Cramer, AB Krueger - American Economic Review, 2016 - aeaweb.org
In most cities, the taxi industry is highly regulated and has restricted entry. Ride sharing
services, such as Uber and Lyft, which use mobile internet technology to connect …

Do digital platforms reduce moral hazard? The case of Uber and taxis

M Liu, E Brynjolfsson, J Dowlatabadi - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Digital platforms provide a variety of technology-enabled tools that enhance market
transparency, such as real-time monitoring, ratings of buyers and sellers, and low-cost …

Two-sided markets, pricing, and network effects

B Jullien, A Pavan, M Rysman - Handbook of industrial organization, 2021 - Elsevier
The chapter has ten sections, which cover the theory of two-sided markets and related
empirical work. Section 1 introduces the reader to the literature. Section 2 covers the case of …

Daily labor supply and adaptive reference points

N Thakral, LT Tô - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
This paper provides field evidence on how reference points adjust, a degree of freedom in
reference-dependence models. Examining this in the context of cabdrivers' daily labor …

Price of competition and fragmentation in ride-sourcing markets

Y Zhou, H Yang, J Ke - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a general model for describing the equilibrium state of a ride-sourcing
market with an arbitrary number of platforms competing with each other. As the number of …

Spatial equilibrium, search frictions, and dynamic efficiency in the taxi industry

N Buchholz - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article analyses the dynamic spatial equilibrium of taxicabs and shows how common
taxi regulations lead to substantial inefficiencies as a result of search frictions and mis …

Who benefits from surge pricing?

JC Castillo - Available at SSRN 3245533, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
In the last decade, new technologies have led to a boom in real-time pricing. I study the most
salient example, surge pricing in ride hailing. Using data from Uber, I develop an empirical …

To pool or not to pool: Equilibrium, pricing and regulation

K Zhang, YM Nie - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021 - Elsevier
We study a transportation network company (TNC) that offers on-demand solo and pooling e-
hail services in an aggregate mobility service market, while competing with transit for …