Privacy and Innovation

Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker

No 17124, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical literature on privacy regulation shows that privacy regulation may affect the extent and direction of data-based innovation. We also show that the impact of privacy regulation can be extremely heterogeneous. Therefore, we argue that digitization means that privacy policy is now a part of innovation policy.

JEL-codes: O31 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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Published as Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker, 2012. "Privacy and Innovation," Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(1), pages 65 - 90.
Published as Privacy and Innovation , Avi Goldfarb, Catherine Tucker. in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 12 , Lerner and Stern. 2012

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