What role does data play in competition? This question has been at the center of a fierce
debate around competition policy in the digital economy. We use a competition-in-utilities …

In recent years, academia, institutions, and policymakers have been focusing their attention
on the impact of data in digital markets. The economic literature that explicitly models data …

Does enhanced access to data foster or hinder competition among firms? Using a
competition-in-utility framework that encompasses many situations where firms use data, we …

Data brokers share consumer data with rivals and, at the same time, compete with them for
selling. We propose a 'co-opetition'game of data brokers and characterize their optimal …

This article studies the effects of consumer information on the intensity of competition. In a
two dimensional duopoly model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer …

This study primarily examines the influence of Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) on Digital Financial Consumer Protection (DFCP), utilizing a dataset spanning 88 …

We investigate how the presence of a Data Broker (DB), who sells consumer data to
downstream firms, affects firm entry and competition in a horizontally differentiated oligopoly …

We analyse the incentives of a data broker to sell consumer-level data that enable
personalised pricing to compete with firms when only a fraction of consumers—centred …

What role does data play in competition? This question has been at the center of a fierce
debate around competition policy in the digital economy. We provide a simple framework for …

The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data facilitates more precisely
targeted individual pricing. We study the incentives of a data broker to sell data about a …