The Right to Be Informed and the Right to Be Forgotten. Welfare Implications in Presence of Myopic Consumers

Carlo Capuano, Iacopo Grassi and Giacomo Valletta

A chapter in The Law and Economics of Privacy, Personal Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Incomplete Monitoring, 2022, vol. 30, pp 3-28 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: We propose a simple model consisting of two separated markets: the market for goodyand the market for goodx. Purchasing information about consumer behavior in the former market helps the monopolist firm, in the latter market, to price-discriminate. Consumers differ in their income and in their level of myopia. Personal data market regulation could both increase consumers' awareness about the treatment of their data and allow them to have their data erased from the data holder. We find that the former aspect of the policy reduces the number of transactions, and hence tends to reduce total surplus, while the second typically boosts willingness to pay of consumers and has positive effects on surplus, provided that the share of high-income consumers is not too high. The overall effect of regulation on total welfare depends on the share of high-income and myopic consumers.

Keywords: C73; D82; D83; Privacy; regulation; data; myopic consumers; sophisticated consumers; price discrimination; surplus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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