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 …

an adaptation of the legal framework for markets and the economy. This paper analyzes the privacy concerns in the digital … to protect privacy? Particularly important are the complex tradeoff problems between benefits and costs of privacy and … that are relevant for privacy concerns. For all three policies it is discussed from an economic perspective how these …