's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven years of data from a large global cloudcomputing provider. Our … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data … processing by 15% relative to comparable US firms, becoming less "data-intensive." To estimate the costs of the GDPR for firms …

's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven years of data from a large global cloud-computing provider. Our … difference-in-difference estimates indicate that, in response to the GDPR, EU firms decreased data storage by 26% and data … processing by 15% relative to comparable US firms, becoming less "data-intensive." To estimate the costs of the GDPR for firms …

We show that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) reduced data sharing online, but had the … collect panel data on the web technology vendors selected by more than 27,000 top websites internationally. The week after the … GDPR's enforcement, website use of web technology vendors for EU users falls by 15%. Websites that would face greater …

In this paper, we analyse the results of a detailed survey of the privacy policies, and data protection terms more … terms relating to controller and processor designations; purposes and legal bases for data processing; individuals’ rights … of access, rectification, and erasure of personal data; the right to data portability; security and data breach …

In this paper we explore the rights that individuals have under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR …’) when their data are processed in clouds, and the remedies that might be available to them if those rights are breached. The … them to understand what data will be collected, how their data may be used, and by whom. Moreover, some of the specific …

GDPR, implying that the GDPR can be welfare-improving. But if the firm's revenue is largely from data monetization, then …We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are … heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the …

-scale evidence on how efficiently firms use these technologies. In this paper, we study firm productivity and learning in cloud … computing by leveraging CPU utilization data from over one billion virtual machines used by nearly 100,000 firms. We find large … and persistent heterogeneity in compute productivity both across and within firms, similar to canonical results in the …

substantial productivity growth, but some evidence of trade discipline on the price-cost margins. A markup premium is however …

In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … of these reforms. We find support for our thesis using detailed matched plant-firm-worker data. In particular, we observe … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …