There is much debate on how the flow of information between firms should be organized, and whether existing privacy … laws should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy … costly to opt in or opt out, privacy policies shape firms' ability to collect and use customer information, and affect their …

paper investigates whether highlighting positive or negative aspects of online privacy, thereby mitigating the informational … problem, can affect consumers' privacy actions and attitudes. Results of two online survey experiments indicate that … informed about positive attitudes of companies towards their privacy. On the other hand, they do not change their attitudes and …

total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …