What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us About Privacy?

Irrational Privacy?

The purpose of this symposium is to consider the implications of important recent work at the intersection of behavioral economics and information privacy. There is much to celebrate in this work, which has improved our understanding of the ways that markets in personal information actually function. Yet behavioral economic analysis has done little to defuse the most intractable problem that em...

Another way to learn about teaching: What dogs can tell us about the evolution of pedagogy.

Kline argues that it is crucial to isolate the respective roles of teaching and learning in order to understand how pedagogy has evolved. We argue that doing so requires testing species that learn from pedagogy but that rarely teach themselves. Here, we review how one previously neglected species - domesticated dogs (Canis familiaris) - may allow researchers to do just that.

The Economics of Privacy

This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of empirical and theoretical research on the economics of privacy. Our focus is on the economic value and consequences of privacy and of personal information, and on consumers’ understanding of and decisions about the costs and benefits associated with data protection and data sharing. We highlight how the economic analysis of ...

Curing What Ails Us: How the Lessons of Behavioral Economics Can Improve Health Care Markets

The Economics of Privacy: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

This chapter considers the growing body of theoretical and empirical research on the economics and behavioral economics of privacy, and how those streams of research can be applied to the investigation of the economic implications of business analytics and consumer data mining. The chapter begins by highlighting why privacy-sensitive scenarios and outcomes can be often interpreted through econo...