Practice of Sharing Economy

Abstract

The advent of the era of sharing economy has brought great changes to people’s lives. People enjoy the convenience and joy of sharing in every aspect. Short rents provide a variety of options for people with short trips. People have more opportunities to contact local customs and locals, and the lessors can gain income through renting. P2P car renting that can be realized through the network platform to provide services to users who need vehicles, and the emergence of the shared finance supplements the current finance system, and the asset owner borrows idle funds to the demand-side to make effective use of the funds. It is not difficult to find that there are a variety of ways of sharing economy. We generalize it in 11 ways: leasing, borrowing, sharing, linking, crowd-funding, P2P lending, crowd-sourcing, crowd-creating, collaboration, transaction, and donation.