data must be protected. In 2017, the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union set an … addresses how personal data protection is being addressed by lawmakers vis-à-vis competition law and anti-trust regulation in … GDPR, the increasing success of laws protecting personal data vis-à-vis competition law points to an area in which the U …

privacy threat in mobile apps. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in 2018 to protect personal … nearly two million Android apps from before and after the introduction of the GDPR. Our analysis suggests that there has been …

Competition Regulators, albeit for different reasons. Sometimes pro-privacy policies may limit competition while pro- competition … pro-competition measure ordered by the Competition Regulator, the consequence would be that either privacy is strengthened … protecting decisional autonomy (privacy) of digital market users. By enabling consumers to choose, both competition and data …

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 …