Privacy, property rights and efficiency: The economics of privacy as secrecy

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 209-239

  Hermalin, Benjamin E ^a   Katz, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Personal data; Privacy; Property rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747736210     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-005-9004-7     Document Type: Article

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