Michael E. Kummer
University of East Anglia
41 Papers
90 Citations
Michael E. Kummer is an academic researcher from University of East Anglia. The author has contributed to research in topics: User-generated content & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 36 publications. Previous affiliations of Michael E. Kummer include Georgia Institute of Technology & University of Mannheim.
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Papers
When private information settles the bill: Money and privacy in Google's market for smartphone applications
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that both the market supply and demand side consider an app's ability to collect private information, measured by their use of privacy-sensitive permissions: cheaper apps use more privacy sensitive permissions; installation numbers are lower for apps with sensitive permissions, and circumstantial factors, such as reputation of app developers, mitigate the strength of this relationship.
When Private Information Settles the Bill: Money and Privacy in Google's Market for Smartphone Applications
TL;DR: This work sheds light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications, showing that both the market's supply and the demand side consider an app's ability to collect private information, measured by their use of privacy-sensitive permissions.
GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors found that GDPR induced the exit of about a third of available apps; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half.
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Market structure and market performance in E-commerce
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics and exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated as exogenous in comparable studies on seller behavior in e-commerce.
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99 Cent: Price points in e-commerce
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use data from an Austrian price comparison site and find a remarkable prevalence of such price setting, and explore the impact of these price points on the consumers' demand.
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