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Privacy concerns and willingness to adopt AI products : a cross-country randomized survey experiment

Brandimarte, Laura; Gutmann, Jerg; Mühlheußer, Gerd; … - 2025

We examine the trade-off between functionality and data privacy inherent in many AI products by conducting a randomized survey experiment with 1,734 participants from the US and several European countries. Participants' willingness to adopt a hypothetical, AI-enhanced app is measured under three...

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How communication makes the difference between a cartel and tacit collusion : a machine learning approach

Andres, Maximilian; Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2022

This paper sheds new light on the role of communication for cartel formation. Using machine learning to evaluate free …-form chat communication among firms in a laboratory experiment, we identify typical communication patterns for both explicit … sanctions on communication reinforces the direct cartel-deterring effect of sanctions as collusion is more difficult to reach …

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The Wade test : generative AI and CEO communication

Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Vanneste, Bart; Zohrehvand, … - 2024

Can generative artificial intelligence (AI) transform the role of the CEO by effectively automating CEO communication …? This study investigates whether AI can mimic a human CEO and whether employees’ perception of the communication’s source … distinguish between communication from their CEO and communication generated by an AI trained on the CEO’s prior communications …

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Privacy regulations, consumer empowerment, and versioning

Choe, Chongwoo; Cong, Jiajia; Matsushima, Noriaki; … - 2025

Privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation aim to empower consumers with greater transparency and control over their personal data. In response, firms may exercise price discrimination in the form of versioning. This paper studies how these two aspects of privacy regulation...

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"Now that you mention it" : a survey experiment on information, salience and online privacy

Marreiros, Helia; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2016

Personal data lie at the forefront of different business models and constitute the main source of revenue of several online companies. In many cases, consumers have incomplete information about the digital transactions of their data. This paper investigates whether highlighting positive or...

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Ad networks, consumer tracking, and privacy

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2017 - This version: September 2017

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...

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Personalized pricing with imperfect customer recognition

Colombo, Stefano; Graziano, Clara; Pignataro, Aldo - 2023

We consider a duopoly model where firms can identify only a share of consumers, which is positively correlated with the consumer' preferences. Firms charge personalized prices to the consumers they can recognize and a uniform price to the rest of consumers. The firms' available information is...

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Can privacy technologies replace cookies? : ad revenue in a field experiment

Gu, Zhengrong; Johnson, Garrett A.; Kobayashi, Shunto J. - 2025

As regulators seek to balance user privacy with publisher sustainability, Google's Privacy Sandbox offers a potential replacement for third-party cookies. This paper presents the first independent estimates of the publisher-side economic effects of Privacy Sandbox, a suite of privacy-enhancing...

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Racial implications of police-algorithm interactions : evidence from rearrest predictions

Lee, Yong Suk - 2025

This paper examines the racial implications of police interaction with algorithms, particularly in the context of racial disparities in rearrest predictions. Our experimental study involved showing police officers the profiles of young offenders and asking them to predict rearrest probabilities...

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Central bank communication with the general public

Dräger, Lena - 2023

This paper surveys the literature on the role and effects of central bank communication with the general public … "communication revolution" in central bank communication. The challenges for central bank communication with the public are outlined … evaluate the effects of direct communication, distinguishing between challenges to getting the attention of the public and …

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