firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU …By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data …

reduces consumer surplus and aggregate app usage by about a third. Whatever the privacy benefits of GDPR, they come at …

strict restrictions on processing and sharing of personal data of EU residents. Both contemporary news reports and simple …

-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures …

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 …

where overly long data retention leads to privacy concerns such as an individual's ``right to be forgotten." …

privacy improvements as well as helpful survey evidence. The literature also examines the consequences of the GDPR's design … well as privacy regulation and privacy-related innovation more broadly …

social, economic and political harms. These include: damaging competition, consumer privacy and consumer choice; excessively …

evidence on the sources of these information frictions. Social scientists have long conjectured that privacy norms around …

This paper studies the effects of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the ability of firms to collect …. We provide evidence that this pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that privacy-conscious consumers substitute away … from less efficient privacy protection (e.g, cookie deletion) to explicit opt out, a process that would reduce the number …