Demirer, Mert; Jiménez Hernández, Diego; Li, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU …'s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven years of data from a large global cloud-computing provider. Our … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data …