The Italian legislator has failed to formulate a comprehensive regulatory response to the sharing economy, CMDS Fellow Giulia Priora and co-authors Monica Postiglione, Stefano Valerio, Venere Stefania Sanna and Chiara Bassetti write in a chapter of a new book The Sharing Economy in Europe.

The authors provide a snapshot of the Italian sharing economy, “highlighting the main legal issues emerging from its consolidation, reflecting on the main implications of the COVID-19 crisis within the sector, and drawing meaningful considerations on some policy directions worth considering in the post-pandemic society.”

The paper finds that as the Italian sharing economy scenario has grown, there has been no consistent regulatory response to it. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the situation. The authors call for “sound and targeted policy intervention” in the field.

The volume The Sharing Economy in Europe: Developments, Practices and Contradictions, edited by Vida Česnuitytė, Andrzej Klimczuk, Cristina Miguel and Gabriela Avram and published by Palgrace Macmillan, provides a multilevel perspective and combines topics at the global, European, national, and regional levels. In addition to Europe-wide overviews and mapping the sharing economy in Europe, it provides case studies from the Netherlands, France, Austria, the UK, Poland and Albania.

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