PayTech and the D(ata) N(etwork) A(ctivities) of BigTech Platforms

Jonathan Chiu () and Thorsten V. Koeppl ()
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Jonathan Chiu: Bank of Canada

No 1490, Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: Why do BigTech platforms introduce payment services? Digital platforms often run business models where activities on the platform generate data that can be monetized off the platform. There is a trade-o between the value of such data and the privacy concerns of users, since platforms need to compensate users for their privacy loss by subsidizing activities. The nature of complementarities between data and payments determines the introduction of payments. When data help to provide better payments (data-driven payments), platforms have too little incentives to adopt. When payments generate additional data (payments-driven data), platforms may adopt payments inefficiently.

Keywords: BigTech; Payments; Privacy; Digital Platform; Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 E42 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2022-05
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