# Prof. Arun Sundararajan's research about the economic impact of the sharing economy

1 December 30, 2013 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030601.jpg?itok=GeJte3i1)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg Businessweek](http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-12-30/your-idle-lexus-for-rent-seen-as-productivity-revival-economy) -- "In this leaner, more efficient kind of consumption, just taking hold in major cities, New York University Professor [Arun Sundararajan](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) sees the makings of a new wave of productivity gains. ... 'It allows you to get more out of the same capital -- or the same out of less capital, less input, less labor,' said Sundararajan, who teaches at the Stern School of Business and is among the first to begin studying the so-called sharing economy."

[Read more](http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-12-30/your-idle-lexus-for-rent-seen-as-productivity-revival-economy)

Additional coverage appeared in [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-30/your-idle-lexus-for-rent-seen-as-productivity-revival-economy.html), [San Francisco Chronicle](http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Hopes-for-productivity-revival-in-sharing-economy-5107137.php), [Connecticut Post](http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/The-ride-sharing-clutch-borrowing-productivity-5114061.php) and [Portland Press Herald](http://www.pressherald.com/news/Asset-sharing_services_gaining_economic_ground_.html).