We compare the private and social incentives for privacy when sellers can commit to transparent privacy policies that are understood by consumers. The purpose is to establish a baseline for how well markets perform when firms' privacy policies are common knowledge. In this setting, if the market...

In the recent decades, the advance of information technology and abundant personal data facilitate the application of algorithmic personalized pricing. However, this leads to the growing concern of potential violation of privacy due to adversarial attack. To address the privacy issue, this paper...

Many controversies that beset the digital economy turn on the role of advertising and its use of personal data. We examine the trade-off between privacy and ad targeting accuracy from the advertisers' perspective. By exploiting Apple's gradual restriction, and ultimately the abolition of ad...

In der Literatur wird zunehmend untersucht, inwieweit Enthüllungsrisiken durch multivariate Analysemethoden beim indirekten Mikrodatenzugang über die kontrollierte Datenfernverarbeitung (Remote Access) bestehen. Daran anschließend zeigt der Beitrag, wie die Schwerpunkteigenschaft der...

In der Literatur wird zunehmend untersucht, inwieweit Enthüllungsrisiken durch multivariate Analysemethoden beim indirekten Mikrodatenzugang über die kontrollierte Datenfernverarbeitung (Remote Access) bestehen. Daran anschließend zeigt der Beitrag, wie die Schwerpunkteigenschaft der...