firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU …By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data …

privacy improvements as well as helpful survey evidence. The literature also examines the consequences of the GDPR's design … well as privacy regulation and privacy-related innovation more broadly …

implications are tested in a comparative study of competitive performance in the EU, Japan and the USA. Typical mechanisms of …

Enlargement of the EU increases economic diversity and inequality between countries and regions, making cohesion … entrepreneurship; a crucial factor in reducing the economic disparity caused by the geographic expansion of the EU. The book offers new … individual and cross-country analyses. FDI in accession countries is examined, as is the effect of EU integration on own …