Data brokers have a significant role in data markets and, more broadly, in surveillance capitalism. Due to increasingly sophisticated techniques, data brokers allow for pervasive datafication. This not only seriously threatens privacy, but also national security and the necessary trust for data...

Tax procedures aim at collecting public finances to cover societal needs but also protect taxpayers. Hereby, a collision between transparency and privacy occurs. The goal of the research was twofold; to identify the relation between transparency and privacy in theory and legislation, and to...

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...

The COVID-19 pandemic has gravely disrupted the world's economy and killed millions of people. A safe and effective vaccine was developed remarkably swiftly, but as of yet uptake of the vaccine has been slow. This paper explores one potential explanation of delayed adoption of the vaccine, which...

Personal data has become a key input in Internet Commerce, facilitating the matching between millions of customers and merchants. Recent data regulations in China, Europe and US restricts Internet platforms' ability to collect and use personal data for personalized recommendation and may...

Crises, such as earthquakes and pandemics, heighten the demand for public good, including fund, blood, and increasingly digital public good, such as personal location data. While theories and anecdotal evidence suggest that individuals might increase private provision of digital public good...