Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize...

Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize...

Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize...

We unravel two drastically different paths for the uninsured and for people with employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) to cope with the economic consequences of health shocks. The uninsured individuals support their incomes mostly from other non-labor income sources, public transfers and...

The minimum routing and wavelength assignment (min-RWA) problem is a classic and challenging NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem which aims to reduce the required wavelengths in wavelength-division multiplexing optical networks. In order to tackle this problem, we present a...