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Promise not fulfilled : FinTech, data privacy, and the GDPR
Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Kreppmeier, Julia - 2021
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 … GDPR has achieved its original goal - the protection of natural persons regarding the processing of personal data. We also …
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Returns to data : evidence from web tracking
Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024
regulatory interventions such as the GDPR. In this light, even with decreasing returns to data small firms can be prevented from …
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Ad networks, consumer tracking, and privacy
D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2017 - This version: September 2017
We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...
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An economic analysis of blockchains
Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2018
The blockchain is a technology that goes beyond timestamping, bitcoin and secure financial transactions. The development of an ecosystem around smart connected objects will probably not happen without the blockchain (in one form or another). The blockchain opens the door to the liquification of...
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International protection of consumer data
Chen, Yongmin; Hua, Xinyu; Maskus, Keith E. - 2020
We study the international protection of consumer data in a model where data usage benefits firms at the expense of their customers. We show that a multinational firm does not balance this trade-off efficiently if its data usage lacks (full) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference...
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Competitive imperfect price discrimination and market power
Belleflamme, Paul; Lam, Wing Man Wynne; Vergote, Wouter - 2019 - This version: November 2019
Two duopolists compete in price on the market for a homogeneous product. They can ‘profile’ consumers, i.e., identify their valuations with some probability. If both firms can profile consumers but with different abilities, then they achieve positive expected profits at equilibrium. This...
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Platform competition and information sharing
Petropoulos, Georgios; Martens, Bertin; Parker, Geoffrey; … - 2023
Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...
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Exclusive data, price manipulation and market leadership
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data not only facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing but also alters firms' strategic incentives. We show that exclusive access to a list of consumers can provide incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader's...
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Data brokers co-opetition
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are "sub-additive", with the...
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External threat, group identity, and support for common policies - the effect of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on European Union identity
Gehring, Kai - 2020
A major theory from social psychology claims that external threats can strengthen group identities and cooperation. This paper exploits the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2014 as a sudden increase in the perceived military threat for eastern European Union member states, in particular for the...
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