This paper investigates how privacy regulation affects the structure of online markets. We provide a simple theoretical … derive empirically testable hypotheses regarding a possibly asymmetric effect of privacy regulation on large and small firms … using a diff-diff-diff model with heterogeneous treatment timing. Our theoretical model predicts that privacy regulation may …

The growth of commerce on the internet has created a paradigm shift where the biggest companies are no longer producers … internet markets — the United States, the European Union and China — and what its experiences have revealed about each market …

online. The key public policy issue regarding privacy is whether the US should follow its current self-regulation course … regulation approach should be adopted in the US, We conclude that the use of assurance seals has worked reasonably well and … opt-in provision be required. We believe that insufficient evidence exists to propose formal Government mandated Internet …

This chapter examines the policy implications of behavioural sciences insights for the regulation of privacy on the … Internet, by focusing in particular on behavioural targeting. This marketing technique involves tracking people’s online …

Internet-based businesses in China have until now not been required to comply with any comprehensive data privacy law …, but from March 15, 2012 business providing ‘Internet information services’ in China must comply with a much more … comprehensive data privacy law, which can be briefly called the Internet Information Services Regulations. ‘Internet information …