Personalization and Privacy Choice

Andrew Rhodes and Jidong Zhou

No 24-1525, TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Abstract: This paper studies consumers’ privacy choices when firms can use their data to make personalized offers. We first introduce a general framework of personalization and privacy choice, and then apply it to personalized recommendations, personalized prices, and personalized product design. We argue that due to firms’ reaction in the product market, consumers who share their data often impose a negative externality on other consumers. Due to this privacy-choice externality, too many consumers share their data relative to the consumer optimum; moreover, more competition, or improvements in data security, can lower consumer surplus by encouraging more data sharing.

Keywords: personalization; consumer data; privacy; personalized pricing; personalized recommendations; personalized product design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 D82 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04-16
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ind, nep-mic and nep-reg
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