Economics of Privacy

Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

March 31 - April 1, 2022

Washington, DC and Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

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
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

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

Privacy Regulation and Barriers to Public Health
3:15 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Data, Competition and Digital Platforms
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
Discussant: Peter Lombard Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
9:45 am

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

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

Privacy Laws and Value of Personal Data (slides)

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

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

Identification and Formal Privacy Guarantees
Discussant: Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:30 pm
Adjourn