TY  - JOUR
AU  - Goldfarb, Avi
AU  - Tucker, Catherine
TI  - Privacy and Innovation
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17124
PY  - 2011
Y2  - June 2011
DO  - 10.3386/w17124
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17124
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17124.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Avi Goldfarb
Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
105 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3E6
CANADA
Tel: 416/946-8604
Fax: 416/978-5433
E-Mail: agoldfarb@rotman.utoronto.ca

Catherine Tucker
MIT Sloan School of Management
100 Main Street, E62-533
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617/252-1499
Fax: 617/258-7597
E-Mail: cetucker@mit.edu
M1  - published as Avi Goldfarb, Catherine Tucker. "Privacy and Innovation," in Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors, "Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 12" University of Chicago Press (2012)

AB  - 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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