This is the third part of a series that discusses the value of personal information in the digital economy. You can find the first and the second part here and here. This series of posts is motivated by the pricing model the telecommunications provider AT&T employs for its GigaPower broadband service. Just to recall, AT&T […]
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Putting a price on privacy – an Introduction to the Economics of Privacy
By 1 June 2014 0
This is the second part of a three-piece series that discusses the value of personal information in the digital economy. You can find the first part here. I started my previous post by asking how much you would be willing to pay in order to prevent your Internet provider from tracking and analysing your browsing […]
Putting a price on privacy – are there benefits to sharing private information?
By 25 May 2014 0
How much would you be willing to pay in order to prevent your Internet provider from tracking and analysing your browsing history? According to AT&T, the Texas-based telecommunications provider, between $29 and $62 a month. Back in December 2013, the company launched its new GigaPower service, which from summer 2014 onward is supposed to deliver […]
Plain packaging receives a “no” from the European Parliament
By 12 November 2013 23
As already reported several times on this blog (see here, here and here), plain packaging of tobacco products, i. e. the requirement to remove or substantially reduce the appeal of the brand on the packaging of cigarettes and other tobacco products, remains a hot topic. It is part of health law, but has some implications […]
Will we all soon be hooked on MOOCs? (1) Introduction
By 3 April 2013 0
I have been willing to devote a blog post to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) for quite some time now, but I never found the energy, nor the right timing to do so (the only step I took was to propose the “market for MOOCs” as a master thesis topic for students of the […]
Will we all soon be hooked on MOOCs? (2) Business models
By 3 April 2013 3
This post is the second of a series of three posts written by Julien Jacqmin. Julien Jacqmin is a PhD student in Economics from the Economics School of Louvain, and is affiliated with the CEREC/Université Saint-Louis – Brussels. Julien’s dissertation is on the economics of education/science and on higher education policy. As an expert on these questions, he is well […]
Will we all soon be hooked on MOOCs? (3) Educational technology and prospectives
By 3 April 2013 0
This post is the third of a series of three posts written by Julien Jacqmin. Julien Jacqmin is a PhD student in Economics from the Economics School of Louvain, and is affiliated with the CEREC/Université Saint-Louis – Brussels. Julien’s dissertation is on the economics of education/science and on higher education policy. As an expert on these questions, he is well […]