Provide a short written assessment of the following statements. Evaluate the veracity of
the statement. Provide a single argument in up to three sentences for each statement
a) Privacy regulation { that exceeds informing the consumer about how her data is
used { is not necessary and not efficient.
b) A platform operator running a two-sided market can find it optimal to set prices
below zero for one side of the market.
c) The size of a network depends on how consumers form expectation on the choices
of other consumers.
d) When advertising has a negative externality on consumers in a two-sided market
context, a monopoly platform operator should increase the prices to advertisers
compared to the case of no-externality. Thus the platform operator makes larger
profits with negative ad externalities.
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