Arbeitspapier

The willingness to sell personal data

We elicit the willingness to sell personal data (contact information, Facebook details, preferences) in laboratory experiments, using a BDM and take-it-or-leave-it offers. Our experiments are novel in that (i) the experiments are incentivized, (ii) the focus on privacy issues is salient, and (iii) the use of the data - marketing purposes - is transparent and unambiguous. We find that only a minority of about 10% to 20% of the participants are unwilling to sell personal data, a share which is roughly constant across both the type of personal data and elicitation method. Subjects willing to sell request about € 15 for their contact details and € 19 for Facebook details.

ISBN
978-3-86304-142-7
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 143

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: General
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Thema
privacy
preference elicitation
valuation of personal data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Benndorf, Volker
Normann, Hans-Theo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
(wo)
Düsseldorf
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Benndorf, Volker
  • Normann, Hans-Theo
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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