privacy concerns that could create a regulatory backlash, restraining the data economy and stifling innovation. In fact, the … principles of privacy and data protection must be balanced against additional societal values, such as economic efficiency … uses of data and individual privacy, governments should address an appropriate structure of privacy law, including …

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

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 …

This paper examines threats to privacy and anonymity accompanying underlying technical changes related to the Internet … in public affairs, and hinder public participation in democratic discourse. Legal and policy barriers to citizen privacy … protections and the tension between privacy and open data (for the public good) are then identified and discussed. This paper …

We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications ("apps"). Developers offer … privacy. We provide evidence for this pattern using data on 300,000 mobile applications which were obtained from the Android … by their use of privacy-sensitive permissions: (1) cheaper apps use more privacy-sensitive permissions; (2) installation …

information aggregation. We derive the optimal degree of privacy/publicity and matching rate, then analyze how they depend on the … in the fundamental or the image-motivated component of average preferences), privacy should generally be greater than in …