Problem definition: This paper studies the information-sharing strategy for a retail platform
on which multiple competing sellers distribute their products. Academic/practical relevance …

We build an endogenous growth model with consumer-generated data as a new key factor
for knowledge accumulation. Consumers balance between providing data for profit and …

A firm buys data from consumers to learn about some uncertain state of the world. There are
data externalities, whereby data of some consumers reveal information about other …

We model a dynamic data economy with fully endogenous growth where agents generate
data from consumption and share them with innovation and production firms. Different from …

The online trading platform Alibaba provides financial technology (FinTech) credit for
millions of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a novel data set of …

I study a dynamic model of consumer privacy and platform data collection. In each period,
consumers choose their level of platform activity. Greater activity generates more precise …

We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing,
thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust …

This paper derives a preference for data privacy from consumers' temptation utility. This
approach facilitates a welfare analysis of different data privacy regulations, such as the …

We build models with an interest-bearing central bank digital currency (CBDC) to investigate
the impacts of issuing CBDC on banking and the macroeconomy. In an economy where …

This paper develops a foundation for a consumer's preference for data privacy by linking it to
the desire to hide behavioral vulnerabilities. Data sharing with digital platforms enhances …