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Private politics are often introduced by market participants in the absence of public regulation. But when is private politics enough, efficient, or better than administratively costly public regulation? We present a novel framework in which we can study the interaction between regulation,...
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The rise of the sharing economy has generated great regulatory challenges. The European Union (EU) has to perform a fine balancing act. On the one hand, it has to safeguard weaker parties, consumers and workers, ensuring they enjoy fair treatment by adopting proper regulatory responses. On the...
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privacy. I analyze the extent to which privacy-protecting mechanisms can be constructed under various assumptions about agents …' predilection for privacy and the permissible game forms. …
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. However, some players are concerned about privacy, and so revelation of evidence that does not result in cooperation is costly …
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privacy costs, we show that the equilibrium level of data provision is distorted and can be inefficiently high or low: if …
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This paper analyzes consumers' privacy choice concerning their private data and firms' ensuing pricing strategy. The … experiment. We find that there is a large share of consumers who reveal their private data. Particularly, less privacy …
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taken the fundamental right to privacy and extended it to the transmission of personal data. The United States of America …, however, offers no such protection at the federal level - the right to privacy within the U.S. is not absolute. This article …
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We introduce consumers with intrinsic privacy preferences into the monopolistic non-linear pricing model. Next to … classical consumers, there is a share of data-sensitive consumers who incur a privacy cost if their purchase reveals information … to the monopolist. The monopolist discriminates between privacy types using privacy mechanisms which consist of a direct …
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