Collecting and Selling Consumer Information: Selling Mechanisms Matter
Abstract
We study the strategies of a data intermediary collecting and selling information to competing firms under different selling mechanisms. We characterize the amount of data collected and sold as well as the price of information with posted prices, sequential bargaining, first-price and second-price auctions. We generalize pair-wise comparisons to establish the economic properties of classes of mechanisms.
Domains
Economics and Finance
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