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Shy, Oz - 2015

We analyze how different degrees of privacy protection affect industry profits, consumer welfare, and total welfare in a model with switching costs. Firms earn higher profits under weak privacy protection compared with strong or no privacy protection. The relationship between the degree of...

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The Economics of Privacy

Acquisti, Alessandro; Taylor, Curtis R.; Wagman, Liad - 2021

This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of theoretical and empirical research on the economics of privacy. We focus on the economic value and consequences of protecting and disclosing personal information, and on consumers' understanding and decisions regarding the...

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Competition and privacy in online markets : evidence from the mobile app industry

Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2019

Policy makers are increasingly concerned about the combination of market power and massive data collection in digital markets. This concern is fueled by the theoretical prediction that more market power causes firms to collect ever more data from their users. We investigate the relationship...

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Competing in the Presence of Privacy Concerns : A Model of the Market for Customer Information

Chellappa, Ramnath K; Sin, Raymond G. - 2008

There is "no free disposal" (NFD) in the consumption of online personalization services, as this activity inherently involves sharing of personal and preference information that creates disutilities to the consumer. Not only are more services not necessarily better for the consumer, but these...

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Price Discrimination by a Two-Sided Platform : With Applications to Advertising and Privacy Design

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol; Menicucci, Domenico - 2015

We study price discrimination by a monopoly two-sided platform who mediates interactions between two different groups of agents. We adapt a canonical model of second degree price discrimination a la Mussa and Rosen (1978) to a two-sided platform by focusing on non-responsiveness, a clash between...

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Online Advertising and Privacy

de Corniere, Alexandre; Nijs, Romain de - 2014

An online platform auctions an advertising slot. Several advertisers compete in the auction, and consumers differ in their preferences. Prior to the auction, the platform decides whether to allow advertisers to access information about consumers (disclosure) or not (privacy). Disclosure improves...

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Warm up by Revelation to Cool down in Competition : Consumer Privacy, Multi-purchase, and Information Sharing

Shao, Xiaokuai; Zheng, Jie - 2022

In markets where duopolists supply differentiated products with certain degree of complementarity, not only can each consumer choose to buy one unit from a particular seller (single-purchase), the consumer may also choose to buy from different sellers simultaneously (multi-purchase) for brand...

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ITIL und Datenschutz : Überlegungen für eine Integration des Datenschutzes in das ITIL-Framework

Klotz, Michael; Kriegel, Jörn - 2012

bis heute kaum Eingang gefunden. Das Arbeitspapier zeigt auf, wie und wo Datenschutz in ITIL einbezogen werden kann und … des Datenschutzes und der Datenschutz als Ausprägung von Prozesselementen. Hieraus ergibt sich letztlich die Rolle des … Analyse im Einzelfall, die sich auf die unternehmensspezifische Intensität der Beziehungen zwischen dem Datenschutz und der …

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When private information settles the bill : money and privacy in Google's market for smartphone applications

Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2016 - This version: April 2016

We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications ("apps"). Developers offer their apps cheaper in return for greater access to personal information, and consumers choose between lower prices and more privacy. We provide evidence for this pattern using data...

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The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment

Jia, Jian - 2020

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted in the European Union in April 2016 and went into effect in May 2018. We study its impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects after its 2018 rollout on European ventures,...

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