Nicole Eling untersucht die Vorteile und Nachteile bei der Verwendung von Nutzerinformationen aus der Anbieter- und Nutzerperspektive. Die Autorin beschreibt, wie die verschiedenen involvierten Parteien den Wert von Nutzerinformationen bestimmen und welche Faktoren diesen beeinflussen. Damit...

In this note we analyze the sustainability of collusion in a game of repeated interaction where firms can price discriminate among consumers based on two types of customer data. This work is related to Liu and Serfes (2007) and Sapi and Suleymanova (2013). Following Sapi and Suleymanova we...

A data intermediary pays consumers for information about their preferences and sells the information so acquired to firms that use it to tailor their products and prices. The social dimension of the individual data - whereby an individual's data are predictive of the behavior of others -...

A data intermediary pays consumers for information about their preferences and sells the information so acquired to firms that use it to tailor their products and prices. The social dimension of the individual data - whereby an individual's data are predictive of the behavior of others -...