Regulation (GDPR). The opt-in requirement of GDPR resulted in 12.5% drop in the intermediary-observed consumers, but the …

This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I … highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm … compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the regulation's impact on data observability. The economic literature on the …

Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on website visits and user behaviour. We document an overall traffic … size and change in visits due to privacy regulation: the smallest and largest websites lost visitors, while medium ones … to website data handling policies. Privacy regulation can impact market structure and may increase dependence on large …

first regulation - an 'identification requirement' - increases privacy concerns by requiring individuals to verify personal … information with government approved documentation. The second regulation - 'anonymity protection' - lowers privacy concerns by …