social, economic and political harms. These include: damaging competition, consumer privacy and consumer choice; excessively …

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

evidence on the sources of these information frictions. Social scientists have long conjectured that privacy norms around …

This paper derives a preference for data privacy from consumers' temptation utility. This approach facilitates a … welfare analysis of different data privacy regulations, such as the GDPR enacted by the European Union and the CCPA enacted by …

. We provide evidence that this pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that privacy-conscious consumers substitute away … from less efficient privacy protection (e.g, cookie deletion) to explicit opt out, a process that would reduce the number … privacy decisions have both on other consumers and for firms …

A central issue in privacy governance is understanding how users balance their privacy preferences and data sharing to … satisfy service demands. We combine survey and behavioral data of a sample of Alipay users to examine how data privacy … between the respondents' self-stated privacy concerns and their number of data-sharing authorizations, confirming the puzzling …

other technologies, three policy categories - privacy, trade, and liability - may be uniquely salient in their influence on …

reshaping the risk in consumer privacy and data security. In this essay, I first define the nature of the problem and then …