This book gives a brief review of current development models and governance of urban sharing platforms, and looks into the economic efficiency of a novel market transaction model of sharing economy, which has been accelerated by high-density urban population and the Internet technology. With an aim to solve current problems featuring excessive competition, waste of resources, security risks, and unfair competition, this book delves into the two governance models in accommodation sharing platforms and bike and car sharing platforms and puts forward a multi-dimensional collaborative governance model that involves the participation of enterprises, the government, and the community. Under such a model, the platforms may utilize their own key technologies to implement supervision and solicit feedback; the government may resort to tax regulation and reallocating shared space to mitigate the negative externality effect and promote fair competition; and the community, as the basic unitof a city, may play its part through on-site participation and real-time feedback.

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Jiachen Li is Associate Professor in Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, with research interests in government regulation, resource and environmental economics, sharing economy, and urban public economy. Funded by the government, she earned her doctoral degree after attending the program offered by East China University of Science and Technology and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Later, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Post-doctoral Mobile Station for Management Science and Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology. She has published papers in leading journals of science and technology as the first author, some of which were indexed in SCI and CSSCI. She has both presided over and participated in numerous research projects at national and municipal levels, including China's National Natural Science Foundation Projects, China's National Social Science Foundation Projects, Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation Projects, and Foundation Projects of China's Ministry of Education.