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Returns to data : evidence from web tracking

Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024

Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...

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Privacy regulation and quality-enhancing innovation

Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo; Toh, Ying Lei - 2023

We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality …. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and … may harm users. However, if the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently large, privacy regulation has a positive …

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Privacy regulation and targeted advertising : evidence from Apple's App Tracking Transparency

Aridor, Guy; Che, Yeon-Koo - 2024

We use a novel dataset of online advertiser performance and product sales to quantify the medium-term economic effects of Apple's App Tracking Transparency Policy (ATT). We find that ATT significantly degraded the ability by Facebook advertisers to target advertisements based on its off-platform...

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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 … studies how these two aspects of privacy regulation - consumer empowerment and versioning - affect market outcomes and welfare … after regulation because its ability to price discriminate outweighs the effects of increased consumer empowerment. In a …

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Data brokers co-opetition

Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019

Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are "sub-additive", with the...

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Promise not fulfilled : FinTech, data privacy, and the GDPR

Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Kreppmeier, Julia - 2021

This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech …

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The bright side of the GDPR : welfare-improving privacy management

Choe, Chongwoo; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023

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 firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...

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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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The effect of regulatory harmonization on cross-border labor migration : evidence from the accounting profession

Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; Christensen, … - 2015

The paper examines whether international regulatory harmonization increases cross-border labor migration. To study this question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers,...

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Impact of roaming regulation on revenues and prices of mobile operators in the EU

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Muñoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021

We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator's revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation. …

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