Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70707 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2008-22
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
This paper presents a monetary-theoretic model to study the implications of networks' collection of personal identifying data and data security on each other's incidence and costs of identity theft. To facilitate trade, agents join clubs (networks) that compile and secure data. Too much data collection and too little security arise in equilibrium with noncooperative networks compared with the efficient allocation. A number of potential remedies are analyzed: mandated limits on the amount of data collected, mandated security levels, reallocations of data-breach costs, and data sharing through a merger of the networks.
Subjects: 
identity theft
identity fraud
data breach
fraud
money
search
JEL: 
D83
E42
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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