acquisitions by GAFAM involving apps from 2015 to 2019, matching these to a comprehensive database covering apps available in the … Google Play Store. We find that competing apps tend to innovate less following an acquisition by GAFAM, while there seems to … be no impact on prices and privacy-sensitive permissions of competing apps. Additionally, we find evidence that affected …

acquisitions by GAFAM involving apps from 2015 to 2019, matching these to a comprehensive database covering apps available in the … Google Play Store. We find that competing apps tend to innovate less following an acquisition by GAFAM, while there seems to … be no impact on prices and privacy-sensitive permissions of competing apps. Additionally, we find evidence that affected …

are being collected in concentrated markets, and apps with higher market shares collect more data. This pattern robustly …

are being collected in concentrated markets, and apps with higher market shares collect more data. This pattern robustly …

,000 applications over four years. Many apps belong to developers with multiple apps. This fact generates variation in the privacy … intrusive data strategies as they become more experienced. Second, intrusive data collection is most likely in apps that target … inform both regulators and scientists who wish to model supply in the market for mobile apps. …

are being collected in concentrated markets, and apps with higher market shares collect more data. This pattern robustly …

acquisitions by GAFAM involving apps from 2015 to 2019, matching these to a comprehensive database covering apps available in the … Google Play Store. We find that competing apps tend to innovate less following an acquisition by GAFAM, while there seems to … be no impact on prices and privacy-sensitive permissions of competing apps. Additionally, we find evidence that affected …

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 …