model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer information to price discriminate. I contrast a full privacy … and a no privacy benchmark with intermediate regimes in which the firms target consumers only partially. No privacy is … traditionally detrimental to industry profits. Instead, I show that with partial privacy firms are always better-off with price …

model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer information to price discriminate. I contrast a full privacy … and a no privacy benchmark with intermediate regimes in which the firms target consumers only partially. No privacy is … traditionally detrimental to industry profits. Instead, I show that with partial privacy firms are always better-off with price …

The concept of privacy has proven difficult to analyze because of its subjective nature and susceptibility to … psychological and contextual influences. This study challenges the concept of privacy as a valid construct for addressing … offer a more reliable and temporally stable measure of privacy-oriented behavior than do snapshots of environmentally …

still possible for an adversary to reconstruct the original data using additional information thus resulting in privacy …, based on statistical decision theory, that assesses the relationship between the disclosed data and the resulting privacy … database. We assess the privacy risk by taking into account both the entity identification and the sensitivity of the disclosed …

loss of privacy, the paper analyzes the incentives of insureds to reveal information, whereby they can decide how much or …

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 …

We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …