The effect of car sharing on car sales

Peter Schmidt

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020, vol. 71, issue C

Abstract: Free-Floating Car Sharing is a potential substitute to private car ownership. Its staggered rollout in German cities is exploited with a difference-in-difference methodology using an original administrative panel dataset on car registrations to estimate the effect of Free-Floating Car Sharing on new car sales. One car sharing vehicle reduces annual new car sales by three vehicles. This effect is driven by a reduction in sales of small, compact and medium-sized car models.

Keywords: Sharing economy; Car sharing; Durable goods sales; Difference-in-differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2020.102622

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