Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has … made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be …

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …

-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of regional development and disparities in Germany …

remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a … social science, namely reactivity, i.e. human beings systematically respond to economic data, and in particular to …

quantify their effects, and also in terms of more and higher quality data. The objective of this paper is to trace the … evolution of the methods and data developments in the RTA literature, from Tinbergen's very first exploration until today, and …

education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …

comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …