Disentangling the Economics of Cybersecurity and Data Privacy

Providing safe and secure environments for digital interactions between consumers, firms and public bodies is a fundamental challenge for today’s society.

Cyber Economics Insight takes an economic approach to digital security and the related issues of data privacy and competition.

Our questions:

What drives firms to adopt secure hardware?

Do markets provide adequate incentives for firms to invest in digital security?

Do firms’ decisions in the areas of security, privacy and competition interact?

How do these interactions shape the optimal approach to regulation?

Cyber Economics Insight News

26 March 2024 

Research presentation at the Annual Conference of the Royal  Economic Society, Belfast (“Competition, Data Sharing and Secure Hardware Adoption”)