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 …

We study personalized pricing in a general oligopoly model. The impact of personalized
pricing relative to uniform pricing hinges on the degree of market coverage. If market …

We study the incentives of a digital business to collect and protect users' data. The users'
data the business collects improve the service it provides to consumers, but they may also …

A monopolist platform uses data to match heterogeneous consumers with multiproduct
sellers. The consumers can purchase the products on the platform or search off the platform …

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 …

This paper studies competition between firms when consumers observe a private signal of
their preferences over products. Within the class of signal structures that induce pure …

Abstract In Spring 2005, the Ombud for Equal Treatment in Austria launched a campaign
notifying employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job ads were illegal. At the …

A seller posts a price for a single object. The seller's and buyer's values may be
interdependent. We characterize the set of payoff vectors across all information structures …

We consider an oligopoly model in which each firm chooses not only its price but also its
advertising strategy regarding how much product information to provide. To highlight firms' …

Many e-commerce platforms use buyers' personal data to intermediate their transactions
with sellers. How much value do such intermediaries derive from the data record of each …