reexamines the debate as to whether firms use price or advertising to signal quality and whether advertising has pro- or anti …-competitive effects. We show that the signaling theory strongly predicts that advertising signals quality if price rivalry prevails, in …; combined price-advertising signals must be used when this difference shrinks. From a welfare point of view, advertising leads …

In the context of today’s technological advancements, the online environment poses a new set of privacy and data … minimizing privacy risks, EUlegislators are trying to keep up to date with the speed of developments and reform the 17-years old …

regulatory debates around privacy and intellectual property online, mainly from a Canadian perspective. In using the concept of … rights is shown to be useful in addressing the gaps in regulatory understandings of privacy and intellectual property …

automatic identification (auto-ID) technology to consumer goods has resulted in widespread concern over the potential privacy … threats, primarily due to the aspect of traceability it could impose on consumers. As a consequence, privacy has come to be … communication technologies (ICT), it becomes apparent that consumers often sacrifice privacy in order to take advantage of some form …