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From Austria to Malaysia, host governments are implementing regulatory measures making it increasingly difficult for Airbnb and its hosts to do business. In many cases, the measures are aimed to protect hotel owners and online competitors while in others they are just meant to control noise pollution and other externalities. Although these measures can be devastating to hosts and the online marketplace, they will certainly not come as a surprise to international business attorneys who understand the nexus of business, politics and law.
Unlike many traditional risk programs that aim to manage the fallout from a checklist of events, strategic risk analysis (and Enterprise Risk Management) cast a wider net. Strategic risk management aims to minimize…
