Decoding the data economy: a literature review of its impact on business, society and digital transformation

A Sestino, A Kahlawi, A De Mauro - European Journal of Innovation …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The data economy, emerging from the current hyper-technological landscape, is a
global digital ecosystem where data is gathered, organized and exchanged to create …

The economics of digital privacy

A Goldfarb, VF Que - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
There has been increasing attention to privacy in the media and in regulatory discussions.
This is a consequence of the increased usefulness of digital data. The literature has …

Too much data: Prices and inefficiencies in data markets

D Acemoglu, A Makhdoumi, A Malekian… - American Economic …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
When a user shares her data with online platforms, she reveals information about others. In
such a setting, externalities depress the price of data because once a user's information is …

Demographic determinants of testing incidence and COVID-19 infections in New York City neighborhoods

GJ Borjas - 2020 - nber.org
ABSTRACT New York City is the hot spot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
This paper merges information on the number of tests and the number of infections at the …

The economics of social data

D Bergemann, A Bonatti, T Gan - The RAND Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A data intermediary acquires signals from individual consumers regarding their preferences.
The intermediary resells the information in a product market wherein firms and consumers …

Voluntary disclosure and personalized pricing

SN Ali, G Lewis, S Vasserman - … of the 21st ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A concern central to the economics of privacy is that firms may use consumer data to price
discriminate. A common response is that consumers should have control over their data and …

A survey of data pricing for data marketplaces

M Zhang, F Beltrán, J Liu - IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A data marketplace is an online venue that brings data owners, data brokers, and data
consumers together and facilitates commoditisation of data amongst them. Data pricing, as a …

Optimal and differentially private data acquisition: Central and local mechanisms

A Fallah, A Makhdoumi, A Malekian… - Operations …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a platform's problem of collecting data from privacy sensitive users to estimate
an underlying parameter of interest. We formulate this question as a Bayesian-optimal …

Endogenous growth under multiple uses of data

LW Cong, W Wei, D Xie, L Zhang - Journal of Economic Dynamics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We model a dynamic data economy with fully endogenous growth where agents generate
data from consumption and share them with innovation and production firms. Different from …

The data privacy paradox and digital demand

L Chen, Y Huang, S Ouyang, W Xiong - 2021 - nber.org
ABSTRACT A central issue in privacy governance is understanding how users balance their
privacy preferences and data sharing to satisfy service demands. We combine survey and …