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loss of privacy, the paper analyzes the incentives of insureds to reveal information, whereby they can decide how much or …
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insureds may choose the precision of monitoring. Also privacy costs incurred thereby are taken into account. Two alternative … data. With any contract scheme some monitor- ing will be optimal unless the privacy costs increase too fast in relation to … signals (monitoring and the outcome) informative of effort (ii) maximizes welfare. In the presence of privacy costs, the …
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We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …
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result suggests that privacy mechanisms affect partner selection and the consequent structure of the network: when … privacy costs of revealing personal information are compensated by more productive links. …
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brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the eect of a reduction of privacy on consumers …
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We study the voluntary revelation of private, personal information in a labor-market experiment with a lemons structure where workers can reveal their productivity at a cost. While rational revelation improves a worker's payout, it imposes a negative externality on others and may trigger further...
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This paper shows that privacy concerns in commercial contexts are not solely driven by a desire to control the … transmission of personal information or to avoid intrusive direct marketing campaigns. When they express privacy concerns … consequences of information transmission. We suggest that there is a homo economicus behind privacy concerns, not simply a primal …
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privacy. I analyze the extent to which privacy-protecting mechanisms can be constructed under various assumptions about agents …' predilection for privacy and the permissible game forms. …
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. However, some players are concerned about privacy, and so revelation of evidence that does not result in cooperation is costly …
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other participants. We do so by using a novel method to generate personal information that reliably induces privacy concerns … in the laboratory. We show that individual decisions to incur privacy risk are correlated with decisions to incur … lead them to lose interest in protecting it. We also find that making subjects think of privacy decisions after financial …
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