Competitive Price-Quality Strategy of Platforms under User Privacy Concerns

The behavior-based discrimination price model (BBPD) needs to collect a large amount of user information, which would spark privacy concerns. However, the literature on BBPD typically overlooks consumer Additionally, most existing research provides some insights from perspective traditional protection measures, but seldom discusses role quality in alleviating users’ By establishing Hotelling duopoly two-period price-quality competition, this paper explores impact industry profits, surplus, and social welfare under results show that, with increase cost, given weak market competition intensity, can surplus welfare, thereby We then discuss managerial implications for In addition, we take Airbnb as an example provide practical implications.