public blockchains seem to indicate that the technology alone cannot guarantee trust. …

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two … ads. However, its tracking capability depends on consumer privacy-related choices (e.g., accepting third-party cookies … consumers. Hence, there may be too little tracking in equilibrium, even from consumers' perspective. We evaluate several privacy …

) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference differs across countries. Unilateral data regulation by each country addresses the …

This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech … firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual … analysis methods, we find that the readability of the privacy statements has decreased. The texts of privacy statements have …

We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior … with multiple time periods. We find a significant relationship between the introduction of the UCPD and consumer trust and …

attitudes (trust in domestic and international institutions, populism and immigration); and iii) social aspects … is a sensible increase in trust in domestic institutions. We also document that the pandemic had heterogeneous and …

relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and … controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust is negatively associated with Covid-19 cases and deaths … cases and deaths in countries with high trust in government. We also find evidence that political trust decreases the risk …