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GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps / Rebecca Janßen, Reinhold Kesler, Michael E. Kummer, Joel Waldfogel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janßen, Rebecca.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30028.
- NBER working paper series no. w30028
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- Using data on 4.1 million apps at the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019, we document that GDPR induced the exit of about a third of available apps; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half. We estimate a structural model of demand and entry in the app market. Comparing long-run equilibria with and without GDPR, we find that GDPR reduces consumer surplus and aggregate app usage by about a third. Whatever the privacy benefits of GDPR, they come at substantial costs in foregone innovation.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2022.
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