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Privacy Regulation and Market Structure

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Campbell, James; Goldfarb, Avi; Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth
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Abstract
This paper models how regulatory attempts to protect the privacy of consumers' data affect the competitive structure of data-intensive industries. Our results suggest that the commonly used consent-based approach may disproportionately benefit firms that offer a larger scope of services. Therefore, though privacy regulation imposes costs on all firms, it is small firms and new firms that are most adversely affected. We then show that this negative effect will be particularly severe for goods where the price mechanism does not mediate the effect, such as the advertising-supported Internet.
Date issued
2015-02
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99173
Department
Sloan School of Management
Journal
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Publisher
Wiley Blackwell
Citation
Campbell, James, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker. “Privacy Regulation and Market Structure.” Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 24, no. 1 (February 10, 2015): 47–73.
Version: Original manuscript
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10586407
1530-9134

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