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'Notice and Choice' has been the reference framework for how firms elicit data from consumers. This paper investigates distortions in consumer behavior which may limit the ability of consumers to safeguard their privacy using data from a field experiment at MIT. There are three findings. First,...
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The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. This paper investigates whether aggregation of content by a single platform encourages users to “skim” content or to investigate it in depth. We study a contract dispute that led a...
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Marketing has enjoyed unparalleled transformation in terms of its effectiveness and ability to delivery measurable return on investment due to the digital revolution. The spread of blockchain technology has led to suggestions that it may have significant marketing applications. Though blockchain...
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When a user shares multi-dimensional data about themselves with a firm, the firm learns about the correlations of different dimensions of user data. We incorporate this type of learning into a model of a data market in which a firm acquires data from users with privacy concerns. User data is...
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