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 …