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-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures …
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This paper derives a preference for data privacy from consumers' temptation utility. This approach facilitates a welfare analysis of different data privacy regulations, such as the GDPR enacted by the European Union and the CCPA enacted by the state of California, when a fraction of the...
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This paper studies the effects of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the ability of firms to collect …
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Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical...
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Using data on 4.1 million apps at the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019, we document that GDPR induced the exit of about a third of available apps; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half. We estimate a structural model of demand and entry in the app...
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strict restrictions on processing and sharing of personal data of EU residents. Both contemporary news reports and simple …
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This paper investigates whether larger quantities of historical data affect a firm's ability to maintain market share in Internet search. We study whether the length of time that search engines retained their server logs affected the apparent accuracy of subsequent searches. Our analysis...
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This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the...
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firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data …
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aggregate of ten Western European nations (the EU-10) from 1977 to 2015. We find that the standard growth accounting approach is …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … ICT-intensive industries producing market services and computer hardware. In contrast the EU-10 experienced a 1995 …
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