Privacy and Innovation

Avi Goldfarb, Catherine Tucker

NBER Working Paper No. 17124
Issued in June 2011
NBER Program(s):   PR

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.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w17124

Published:

• Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker, 2012. "Privacy and Innovation," Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(1), pages 65 - 90.
• Privacy and Innovation, Avi Goldfarb, Catherine Tucker. in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 12, Lerner and Stern. 2012

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