result suggests that privacy mechanisms affect partner selection and the consequent structure of the network: when …We study in the laboratory the impact of private information revelation on the selection of partners when forming … privacy costs of revealing personal information are compensated by more productive links. …

income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second …

may choose the precision of monitoring. Also privacy costs incurred thereby are taken into account. Two alternative … data. With any contract scheme some monitoring will be optimal unless the privacy costs increase too fast in relation to … the precision of the monitoring signal. In the benchmark situation (without privacy costs) relying completely on both …

higher value of traded information and therefore has to grant the agent more privacy. …