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Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects’ willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right concerning the choice between two real effort tasks. We also elicit for each participant her change in beliefs about the likelihood of receiving her preferred task if she rather than...
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policy requiring list prices to be public). Otherwise, more protective privacy regulations have ambiguous effects on consumer …
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We investigate the strategies of a data intermediary selling consumer information to firms for price discrimination purpose. We analyze how the mechanism through which the data intermediary sells information influences how much consumer information she will collect and sell to firms, and how...
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) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference differs across countries. Unilateral data regulation by each country addresses the …
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markets. Finally, we study how the intermediary responds to policies designed to enhance transparency or consumer privacy, and …
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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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made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be … activity. The extent of shadow profiling Facebook may engage in is similar on privacy-sensitive domains and across user …
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When using digital devices and services, individuals provide their personal data to organizations in exchange for gains in various domains of life. Organizations use these data to run technologies such as smart assistants, augmented reality, and robotics. Most often, these organizations seek to...
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We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two … ads. However, its tracking capability depends on consumer privacy-related choices (e.g., accepting third-party cookies … consumers. Hence, there may be too little tracking in equilibrium, even from consumers’ perspective. We evaluate several privacy …
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