The Empirical Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice
研究了当消费者有隐私偏好时，从选择数据中能推断出什么，发现即使假设隐私偏好单调且可分离，也很难推断消费者偏好，并提出了一个可检验的加性模型。
This paper initiates the study of the testable implications of choice data in settings where agents have privacy preferences. We adapt the standard conceptualization of consumer choice theory to a situation where the consumer is aware of, and has preferences over, the information revealed by her choices. The main message of the paper is that little can be inferred about consumers’ preferences once we introduce the possibility that the consumer has concerns about privacy. This holds even when consumers’ privacy preferences are assumed to be monotonic and separable. This motivates the consideration of stronger assumptions and, to that end, we introduce an additive model for privacy preferences that has testable implications.