# kaal:claim:2834531-023

**Claim.** In the Airbnb case, the selection of the relevant facts and the residency rule that followed from it benefit vested interests, most obviously the hotel industry that stands to lose from Airbnb's competition.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- short term rental rules requiring hosts to reside in the property

**Source quote.**

> Of course, the selection of the "relevant facts" in this case and the resulting rule benefits certain vested interests, most obviously the hotel industry who stand to lose out from the new competition from Airbnb.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), A. Facts Today, page 19

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531

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**Failure mode.** rule capture through fact selection  (family: regulatory-capture-and-incumbent-advantage)

**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** airbnb, vested-interests, fact-selection, sharing-economy

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