Showing posts with label Uber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uber. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The end of the beginning of the gig economy? Uber, Lyft and California AB5

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 The San Francisco Chronicle has the latest news on the most concrete step yet to require Uber and Lyft to shift from a contractor-driver bu...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Price versus waiting time in a ride sharing market

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Here's an interesting paper on ride sharing, with estimates of the tradeoffs that individuals make between price and waiting time. The ...
Monday, May 13, 2019

PBS on Uber's economists

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Paul Solman interviews Uber economists (John Hall and others) and other economists (Susan Athey and Paul Oyer) on what economists do at Ube...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Quartz writes about Uber and other tech firms that hire economists

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Here's the story, which prominently features Uber's Jonathan Hall: Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists By Alison Gris...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Uber's difficulties in London (and in general)

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Here's an illuminating article on the difficulties Uber is having in London. It's hard to extract a few representative sentences, b...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Ben Edelman calls out Uber

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Ben has been following Uber for some time, and he's calling them out for their law-breaking business model: Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Racial discrimination in Uber and Lyft

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Here's an NBER paper that investigates, in connection with Uber and Lyft, some of the issues that crop up in other distributed decision...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Mergers of taxi-hailing services in Europe, and China

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Europe is preparing to defend itself against Uber. Bloomberg has the story: Daimler Targets Uber by Merging Mytaxi With U.K.’s Hailo &qu...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Acquiring the first thousand customers in a two-sided market

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HBS Working Knowledge has a nice piece about a case study by Professor Thales Teixeira , How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Uber, surge pricing, and how much battery life is left in your phone (they know)

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The Telegraph has the (scary) story, after chatting with Keith Chen :  Uber knows customers with dying batteries are more likely to accept ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Uber competes with rental cars too, not just taxis

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From Bloomberg:  Uber Overtakes Rental Cars Among Business Travelers
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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Market making and law breaking: Ben Edelman considers Uber et al.

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Ben Edelman considers the many efficiencies that Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) like Uber provide, but also notes that they may be...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

How do Uber drivers get home at the end of the day?

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Uber's matching algorithm takes drivers' destinations into account at the end of their working day: here's Uber's announcem...
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