prevailing concern is that the market for private data and security breaches expose consumers to financial fraud. In this study … information on the iOS platform, providing a major shock to the data industry. Using a difference-in-differences design and … concentrated in complaints related to lax data security and privacy, identified using keyword searches and machine learning on …

frictions shape firm dynamics and market evolution in global e-commerce. Using detailed data from AliEpxress as well as a rich …

recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new … empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches to disproportionate ethnic …

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new … algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and cross-border restrictions on data flows? Answers lie in the palm of …. We have 2015-2020 usage data for the most popular 35,575 mobile apps and, to quantify the AI deployed in each of these …

Many platforms deploy data collected from users for a multitude of purposes. While some are beneficial to users, others … how and to what extent user data will be harvested for activities such as targeted ads, individualized pricing, and sales … to third parties. In this paper, we build a multi-stage model in which users decide whether to share their data based on …

Using data on 4.1 million apps at the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019, we document that GDPR induced the exit of …

This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an …

in demand for new research and a corresponding increase in the use of preprint platforms around the world. We find that ….S. institutions receive more attention, than preprints with authors from the rest of the world. In an exploration of potential …

By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter …'s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven years of data from a large global cloud-computing provider. Our … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data …

We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying … framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data are jointly produced from users' economic activities … and platforms' investments in data infrastructure. Data improves service quality, causing a feedback loop that tends to …