5 papers
Measuring Self-Preferencing on Digital Platforms
Lukas Jürgensmeier, Bernd Skiera
Digital platforms use recommendations to facilitate exchanges between platform actors, such as trade between buyers and sellers. Aiming to protect consumers and guarantee fair comp…
The Economic Value of User Tracking for Publishers
Rene Laub, Klaus M. Miller, Bernd Skiera
Regulators and browsers increasingly restrict user tracking to protect users' privacy online. In two large-scale empirical studies, we study the economic implications for publisher…
Economic Consequences of Online Tracking Restrictions: Evidence from Cookies
Klaus M. Miller, Bernd Skiera
In recent years, European regulators have debated restricting the time an online tracker can track a user to protect consumer privacy better. Despite the significance of these deba…
The Impact of Privacy Laws on Online User Behavior
Julia Schmitt, Klaus M. Miller, Bernd Skiera
Policymakers worldwide draft privacy laws that require trading-off between safeguarding consumer privacy and preventing economic loss to companies that use consumer data. However,…
How to Best Predict the Daily Number of New Infections of Covid-19
Bernd Skiera, Lukas Jürgensmeier, Kevin Stowe +1
Knowledge about the daily number of new infections of Covid-19 is important because it is the basis for political decisions resulting in lockdowns and urgent health care measures.…