AUTHOR
Jentzsch, Nicola
TITLE
Financial Privacy : an International Comparison of Credit Reporting Systems / Nicola Jentzsch.
EDITION
2nd ed.
PUBLISHER/YEAR
Berlin
New York Springer 2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- VI, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272)
NOTES
Rev. ed. of : The economics and regulation of financial privacy. c2006.
ADDED NAME
Jentzsch, Nicola Economics and Regulation of Financial Privacy
ISBN
9783540733775
UDC NUMBER
342.9
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Annotation
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the economics and regulation of financial privacy. It is an international comparison of credit reporting systems in the United States and in European countries. On the theoretical level the book explains competition in information markets, especially in markets for goods made of highly personal and sensitive information. It reviews the microeconomics of information and privacy and discusses the economic incentives to disclose or to conceal information. The book also focuses on the institutions of credit reporting, the history of credit reporting agencies and the regulation of privacy and credit reporting on both sides of the Atlantic as well as internationally. Finally, on the empirical level, it reviews the microeconomic and potential macroeconomic effects of credit reporting in the credit markets of countries around the world.