Venice Summer Institute 2019: Economics of the Gig Economy

Driven by advances in digitization, non-standard work arrangements, sharing on online platforms, and direct consumer-producer relationships are becoming important parts of our economic and social life. This development has important consequences for labor relations, consumer choice and product market competition, taxation, innovation, financial transactions and regulation. Many policy makers in Europe and the US are currently struggling with finding proper regulatory frameworks for the so-called Gig Economy. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean to discuss these issues and to derive clear policy recommendations. We are looking for both theoretical and empirical contributions in this area.

Keynote speaker: Christopher Stanton, Harvard Business School