【主题】Non-competing Data Intermediaries
【报告人】Shota Ichihashi（高级经济学家，加拿大银行）
【时间】12月24日 星期二 15:30-17:00
【地点】 经济学院楼312室
【摘要】I study a model of markets for personal data, where data intermediaries (e.g., online platforms and data brokers) buy data from consumers and sell them to downstream firms. Competition among intermediaries has a limited impact on improving consumer welfare: If intermediaries offer high prices for data, consumers share data with multiple intermediaries, which lowers the downstream price of data and hurts intermediaries. This leads to multiple equilibria. There is a monopoly equilibrium, and equilibrium with greater data concentration benefits intermediaries and hurts consumers. I generalize the results to arbitrary consumer preferences and study information design by data intermediaries.
