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 …

There has been increasing attention to privacy in the media and in regulatory discussions. This is a consequence of the … consumer needs, and increased profits. The costs relate to intrinsic and instrumental values of privacy. Under standard … direct cost-benefit assessment, examining how privacy regulations have affected various market outcomes. However, an …

inefficient over- or under-collection of data. Data sharing proposals, user privacy protections, platform commitments, and markets …

are costly to their privacy. The presence of these privacy costs means that platforms may need to provide guarantees about … privacy guarantees. We first introduce a novel mask-shuffle mechanism and prove it is Pareto optimal--meaning that it leaks … mask-shuffle mechanism, there exists a unique equilibrium in which privacy guarantees balance privacy costs and utility …

concentrated in complaints related to lax data security and privacy, identified using keyword searches and machine learning on …

This paper develops a foundation for a consumer's preference for data privacy by linking it to the desire to hide … digital era--algorithmic inequality. Although data privacy regulations provide consumers with the option to opt out of data …

. Privacy concerns have prompted regulations that restrict the use of personal data. To inform these policy debates, we develop … an equilibrium model of advertising and market structure to analyze the impact of privacy regulation on market outcomes … potential harms to both firms and consumers from privacy regulation …