higher value of traded information and therefore has to grant the agent more privacy. …

higher value of traded information and therefore has to grant the agent more privacy. …

increasing political pressure to notify individuals whose privacy as been breached. At the moment, we know virtually nothing … contrast to the theory (where breach notifications have no behavioral effect), our main result shows that notifications induce …

privacy shocks and experimentally study how the privacy breach notification changes an individual's behavior regarding data …

We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications ("apps"). Developers offer … privacy. We provide evidence for this pattern using data on 300,000 mobile applications which were obtained from the Android … by their use of privacy-sensitive permissions: (1) cheaper apps use more privacy-sensitive permissions; (2) installation …

harmed by leakage and misuse of the shared information. I analyze the effect of enhancing privacy in the presence of two … opposing forces: network effects and informational interdependencies. I show that two privacy enhancements — reducing the … information sharing, and that although they always seem beneficial to non-strategic users, both privacy enhancements may backfire …