Economics of Privacy.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on the Economics of Privacy took place March 31 to April 1 in Washington, DC and online. Research Associates Avi Goldfarb of the University of Toronto and Catherine Tucker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology organized the meeting, which was supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2020-12662. A keynote address was delivered by Elizabeth Goitein, codirector of the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Long Chen and Yadong Huang, Luohan Academy; Shumiao Ouyang, Princeton University; and Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER, "The Data Privacy Paradox and Digital Demand" (NBER Working Paper 28854)

* Yu Zhao, University of Pennsylvania; Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; and Pradeep Chintagunta, University of Chicago, "Privacy Regulations and Online Search Friction: Evidence from GDPR"

* Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER; Andrew Kao, Harvard University; David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER; and Noam Yuchtman, London School of Economics, "Al-tocracy" (NBER Working Paper 29466)

* Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Erica Groshen, Cornell University, "Disclosure Avoidance and the 2020 Census: What Do Researchers Need to Know?"

* Karlo Lukic and Bernd Skiera, Goethe University, and Klaus M. Miller, HEC Paris, "The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the Amount of Online Tracking"

* Laura C. Derksen, Anita McGahan, and Leandro S. Pongeluppe, University of Toronto, "Privacy at What Cost? Using Electronic Medical Records to Recover Lapsed Patients into HIV Care"

* Raveesh Mayya, New York University, and Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland, "Delaying Informed Consent: An Empirical Investigation of Mobile Apps' Upgrade Decisions"

* Vincent Lefrere, Institut-Mines Telecom; Logan Warberg and Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University; Cristobal Cheyre, Cornell University; and...