# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on allowing Airbnb and Uber to self-regulate

1 Faculty News February 4, 2015 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/04/what-happens-when-uber-and-airbnb-become-their-own-regulators/) -- "'As the number of small businesses gets larger, and as the size of each small business gets smaller,' [Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) says, 'the overhead that this is going to impose on a regulatory authority is going to be pretty extensive. It seems sort of socially efficient to delegate that.'"

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