Economics of Privacy
Organized by Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
March 31 - April 1, 2022
Washington, DC and Zoom.us
Thursday, March 31
12:00 n
Lunch - The Backroom at Kingbird
1:00 pm

Privacy at What Cost? Using Electronic Medical Records to Recover Lapsed Patients into HIV Care

Laura C. Derksen, University of Toronto
Anita McGahan, University of Toronto
Leandro S. Pongeluppe, University of Toronto

Discussant:
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
1:45 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Delaying Informed Consent: An Empirical Investigation of Mobile Apps’ Upgrade Decisions

Raveesh Mayya, New York University
Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland, College Park

Privacy Concerns, Economic Benefits, and Consumer Decisions: A Multi-Period Panel Study of Consumer Choices in the Automobile Insurance Industry

Miremad Soleymanian, Simon Fraser University
Charles Weinberg, University of British Columbia
Ting Zhu, Purdue University

Privacy Regulation and Barriers to Public Health

Joseph R. Buckman, Georgia State University
Idris Adjerid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:15 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Data, Competition and Digital Platforms

Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER
4:30 pm
Keynote Speaker:
Elizabeth Goitein, Co-Director, Liberty & National Security Program Brennan Center for Justice (Slides)
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Reception and Group Dinner at the Watergate Hotel, The Backroom at Kingbird
Friday, April 1
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

AI-tocracy

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Andrew Kao, Harvard University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford

Discussant:
Peter Lombard Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
9:45 am

Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking

Tania Babina, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Greg Buchak, Stanford University and NBER
Will Gornall, University of British Columbia

Discussant:
Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

The Impact of the GDPR on Content Providers (slides)

Vincent Lefrere, Institut-Mines Télécom
Logan Warberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Cristobal Cheyre, Cornell University
Veronica Marotta, University of Minnesota
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University

Privacy Regulations and Online Search Friction: Evidence from GDPR (slides)

Yu Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Pradeep Chintagunta, University of Chicago

Privacy Laws and Value of Personal Data (slides)

Simona Abis, University of Colorado Boulder
Mehmet I. Canayaz, The Pennsylvania State University
Ilja Kantorovitch, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Roxana Mihet, HEC Lausanne
Huan Tang, University of Pennsylvania

The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the Amount of Online Tracking

Karlo Lukic, Goethe University Frankfurt
Klaus M. Miller, HEC Paris
Bernd Skiera, Goethe University Frankfurt

Short Run Effects of Generalized Data Protection Act on Returns from AI Acquisitions

Rajkumar Venkatesan, University of Virginia
S. Arunachalam, Indian School of Business (ISB)
Kiran Pedada, Indian School of Business (ISB)

Discussant:
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch -T he Backroom at Kingbird
1:30 pm

The Data Privacy Paradox and Digital Demand

Long Chen, Luohan Academy
Yadong Huang, Luohan Academy
Shumiao Ouyang, University of Oxford
Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Laura Brandimarte, Univeristy of Arizona
2:15 pm
Break
2:30 pm

Disclosure Avoidance and the 2020 Census: What Do Researchers Need to Know?

Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Erica Groshen, Cornell University

Identification and Formal Privacy Guarantees

Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia
Tatiana Komarova, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Discussant:
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:30 pm
Adjourn