Unwillingness to pay for privacy: A field experiment

Economics Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-27

  Beresford, Alastair R ^a   Kübler, Dorothea ^b,c   Preibusch, Sören ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WZB ^*  (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Privacy; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861054146     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.077     Document Type: Article

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