Abstract
Cloud computing technologies can increase innovation and economic growth considerably. Because of privacy concerns, however, many users underutilize cloud technologies. This paper designs an institution attenuating the problem: a two-layered certification scheme built around a private, nonprofit organization called cloud association. This association is governed by representatives of both users and cloud service providers and sources auditing and certification of providers out to independent for-profit certifiers. It is shown how this institution incentivizes providers to produce high data security, and users with strong privacy preferences to trust them and pay a premium for their services
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 52-67 |
Journal | Information Economics and Policy |
Volume | 45 |
Early online date | Oct 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- Trust
- Private Ordering
- Associations
- certification
- Privacy