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There has been increasing attention to privacy in the media and in regulatory discussions. This is a consequence of the increased usefulness of digital data. The literature has emphasized the benefits and costs of digital data flows to consumers and firms. The benefits arise in the form of...
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Many platforms deploy data collected from users for a multitude of purposes. While some are beneficial to users, others are costly to their privacy. The presence of these privacy costs means that platforms may need to provide guarantees about how and to what extent user data will be harvested...
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By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven...
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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...
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Climate-related risks have increased in recent decades, both in terms of the frequency of extreme weather events (physical risk) and implementation of climate-change mitigation policies (transition risk). This paper explores whether multinational firms react to such risks by altering their...
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The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection … negotiating interconnection agreements at the internet layer due to reduced bargaining power of European networks and increased …
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inputs, and product characteristics with plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet …, this paper provides causal evidence on how the internet affected the traditional print media market. Household adoption of … broadband internet triggered large reductions in print readership and circulation and equally large increases in online news …
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High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may … providers to improve quality. We examine how health outcomes for common procedures in Medicare changed after broadband internet …
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This essay discusses several potential economic, political and social costs of the current path of AI technologies. I argue that if AI continues to be deployed along its current trajectory and remains unregulated, it may produce various social, economic and political harms. These include:...
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