If not well-targeted, advertising and direct marketing inflict nuisance and inconvenience on consumers. Theoretical analyses predict that consumer actions to avoid advertising impose externalities on other consumers. We investigate the extent of such externalities in the context of the U.S. Do...

Privacy regulations have the potential to inadvertently hinder access to app-based education for non-paying users. This could occur through two adaptation reactions—the erection of paywalls or the escalation of the frequency of advertisements—that have convergent consequences for access....

This chapter reviews economic analyses of privacy. We begin by scrutinizing the "free market" critique of privacy regulation. Welfare may be non-monotone in the quantity of information, hence there may be excessive incentive to collect information. This result applies to both non-productive and...