# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on regulation of the sharing economy

1 Faculty News December 16, 2013 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo! Finance](http://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/net-upstarts-rattle-established-industry-050104253.html) -- "'The regulations were designed for the analog world,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University who studies digital economies. 'Now there are digital ways of providing these services that have created new forms of consumption. The conflict is natural.'"

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