The digitalisation of the economy with data as the new critical resource is a technological revolution which requires an adaptation of the legal framework for markets and the economy. This paper analyzes the privacy concerns in the digital economy from an economics perspective. What can we learn...

Many people implicitly sell or give away their data when using online services and participating in loyalty programmes-despite growing concerns about company's use of private data. Our paper studies potential reasons and co-variates that contribute to resolving this apparent paradox, which has...

Many people implicitly sell or give away their data when using online services and participating in loyalty programmes-despite growing concerns about company’s use of private data. Our paper studies potential reasons and co-variates that contribute to resolving this apparent paradox, which has...

The concept of consent is a central pillar of data protection. It features prominently in research, regulation, and public debates on the subject, in spite of the wide-ranging criticisms that have been levelled against it. In this paper, I refer to this as the consent paradox. I argue that...

It is commonplace that the data needed for econometric inference are not contained in a single source. In this paper we analyze the problem of parametric inference from combined individual-level data when data combination is based on personal and demographic identifiers such as name, age, or...

The concept of consent is a central pillar of data protection. It features prominently in research, regulation, and public debates on the subject, in spite of the wide-ranging criticisms that have been levelled against it. In this paper, I refer to this as the consent paradox. I argue that...

Refinement of the legal framework that balancesthe protection and usage of personal data in online and offline services has been discussed globally. On the other hand, because of information asymmetry between users and service providers and bounded rationality of users, the existing...

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...

Der Zugriff auf das Internet hat sich durch die Verbreitung mobiler Endgeräte im vergangenen Jahrzehnt von der stationären hin zur mobilen Nutzung verändert. Da Kapazitäts- und Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen der meisten Mobilfunktarife die Möglichkeiten der mobilen Internetnutzung...

Refinement of the legal framework that balancesthe protection and usage of personal data in online and offline services has been discussed globally. On the other hand, because of information asymmetry between users and service providers and bounded rationality of users, the existing...

Der Trend zur Auswertung aller nur möglichen Datenbestände für kommerzielle Zwecke ist eine nicht mehr aufzuhaltende Entwicklung. Auch für die Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung wird überlegt, Daten aus Sozialen Netzwerken einzusetzen. Die Forschungsfrage entsteht, wie die Nutzer dieser Netzwerke...

Binding Corporate Rules provide an adequate level of protection for companies which transfer data from the European Economic Area to countries which do not ensure an adequate level of protection. However, data transfers on the basis of BCR may need to be authorised by some national data...

The digitalisation of the economy with data as the new critical resource is a technological revolution which requires an adaptation of the legal framework for markets and the economy. This paper analyzes the privacy concerns in the digital economy from an economics perspective. What can we learn...

Laut EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung sollen Nutzer ihre persönlichen Daten ab 2018 zwischen verschiedenen Online-Plattformen transferieren können. Das ist zwar förderlich für die Datensouveränität des Einzelnen, aber schädlich für den Wettbewerb – zumindest in einigen Fällen. Unter...

Breaches of the security of personal data collected by firms are reported almost daily. Companies are under an increasing political pressure to notify individuals whose privacy as been breached. At the moment, we know virtually nothing about the behavioral impact of data breach notifications. We...

Zu Beginn des Jahres 2009 geriet die Deutsche Bahn AG in eine datenschutzrechtliche Krisensituation. Als Konsequenz aus Verstößen gegen das Datenschutzrecht wurde eine Konzernbetriebsvereinbarung Beschäftigtendatenschutz entwickelt, verhandelt und abgeschlossen mit dem Ziel, einen...

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

Frühere Arbeiten zeigen, dass Personen trotz hoher Datenschutzbedenken oft sehr freigiebig persönliche Informationen preisgeben, wenn sie Informationssysteme (ISs) nutzen. Wissenschaftler beschreiben dieses Privacy Paradox als ein zentrales Problem derzeitiger Datenschutzforschung. Das Ziel...

In diesem Jahr steht in Deutschland die Novellierung des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen (GWB) an. Das Reformvorhaben hat eine intensive Debatte um die Neuorientierung der Wettbewerbspolitik in digitalen Märkten entfacht. Während es einen Konsens gibt, dass der existierende...