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 …

prevalence and characteristics of geo-blocking practices across the EU28 using a broad-based approach covering all forms of … EU legislation. An EU28-wide Mystery Shopping Survey was conducted to examine the various types of geo-blocking practices … Member States in the EU28. The study finds that geo-blocking practices are widespread, and mostly apply in relation to …

individuals’ privacy and civil and political liberties and to assess the measures necessary to ensure the respect for fundamental …

reduces consumer surplus and aggregate app usage by about a third. Whatever the privacy benefits of GDPR, they come at …