Users of social, economic, or medical networks share personal information in exchange for tangible benefits, but may be harmed by leakage and misuse of the shared information. I analyze the effect of enhancing privacy in the presence of two opposing forces: network effects and informational...

This article considers the roles of data protection authorities (DPAs), or as they are sometimes called 'privacy enforcement agencies' (PEAs), and the associations they form. The article is based on data from the 2017 Global Tables of Data Privacy Laws and Bills at...

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...

This article analyses the global growth of data privacy (‘data protection’) laws over 40 years from a number of perspectives. After outlining the extent of global expansion, the influence of international agreements concerning privacy is identified as one reason for their relative...

With the increasing ease with which information can be shared in social media, the issue of privacy has become central for the functioning of various online platforms. In this paper, we consider how privacy concerns affect individual choices in the context of a network formation game (where...