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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism
Andreoni, James - 2010
communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between … other condition. When empathy was heightened by putting allocators "in the receivers shoes," altruism appeared as if …
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Narrative Economics
Shiller, Robert J. - 2017
This address considers the epidemiology of narratives relevant to economic fluctuations. The human brain has always been highly tuned towards narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as spending and investing. Stories motivate and connect activities...
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Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles and is it Rational?
Beaudry, Paul - 2011
This paper provides new evidence in support of the idea that bouts of optimism and pessimism drive much of US business cycles. In particular, we begin by using sign-restriction based identification schemes to isolate innovations in optimism or pessimism and we document the extent to which such...
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Privacy and Innovation
Goldfarb, Avi - 2014
Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about …
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Privacy and Data-Based Research
Heffetz, Ori - 2013
What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their privacy? We retell a few stories, well-known in data-privacy circles, of failed anonymization attempts in publicly released datasets. We then provide a mostly informal...
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The Digital Privacy Paradox : Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk
Athey, Susan - 2017
'Notice and Choice' has been a mainstay of policies designed to safeguard consumer privacy. This paper investigates distortions in consumer behavior when faced with notice and choice which may limit the ability of consumers to safeguard their privacy using field experiment data from the MIT...
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The Short-Run Effects of Gdpr on Technology Venture Investment
Jia, Jian - 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union in May 2018. We study its short-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures, relative to their US counterparts. The negative...
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The Salary Taboo : Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
Cullen, Zoe - 2018
The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of these information frictions....
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The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection
Zhuo, Ran - 2019
The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, interconnected using bilaterally negotiated data exchange agreements. The European Union (EU)'s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on handling of personal data of European Economic Area (EEA)...
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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
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