firms can send unambiguous signals to consumers regarding their intention of protecting privacy. Ambiguous signals can lead …

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 …

losers from potential privacy regulation in the context of four commonly-used oligopoly models: a linear city model, a … winners and losers as a result of privacy enforcement, the parties who stand to benefit and the parties who stand to lose, as …