Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56724 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2011-010
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of one DVD from one of two online stores. One store consistently required more sensitive personal data than the other, but otherwise the stores were identical. In one treatment, DVDs were one Euro cheaper at the store requesting more personal information, and almost all buyers chose the cheaper store. Surprisingly, in the second treatment when prices were identical, participants bought from both shops equally often.
Subjects: 
privacy
willingness to pay
field experiments
JEL: 
C93
D12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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