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评估隐私监管对电商企业的影响:来自苹果“应用跟踪透明度”的证据

Evaluating the Impact of Privacy Regulation on E-Commerce Firms: Evidence from Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
Management Science · 2026 · Guy Aridor、Yeon-Koo Che、Brett Hollenbeck、Maximilian Kaiser、Daniel McCarthy

中文摘要

通过汇集关于在线广告主支出、表现与收入的新型数据集,我们量化了苹果“应用跟踪透明度”(App Tracking Transparency, ATT)隐私政策对电商企业的经济影响。我们发现,受ATT影响最大的转化优化型Meta广告,其点击率在ATT实施后下降了37%。尽管企业以将广告支出从Meta转移至Google生态系统作为回应,但与基线Meta依赖度较低的企业相比,基线Meta依赖度较高的企业全公司收入仍出现了大幅下降。我们采用多种方法量化这些效应,发现相对于暴露程度较低的企业,收入下降幅度介于8%至40%之间。这些下降主要由规模较小的电商企业承担,这引发了关于消费者隐私与规模较小的电商企业和直接面向消费者企业在产品市场上取得成功的能力之间权衡取舍的疑问。本文由Jean-Pierre Dubé(营销方向)接收。资助:本研究得到LEC经济与隐私项目以及MSI研究基金[4001820]的支持。补充材料:在线附录和数据文件可从 https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2024.06600 获取。

Abstract

Assembling novel data sets on online advertiser spending, performance, and revenue, we quantify the economic effects of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy on e-commerce firms. We find that conversion-optimized Meta advertisements, affected most by ATT, saw a 37% reduction in click-through rates after ATT. Although firms responded by shifting ad spending from Meta to the Google ecosystem, firms with higher baseline Meta dependence nevertheless experienced a substantial decline in firm-wide revenue relative to firms with lower baseline Meta dependence. We quantify these effects using a variety of methods, finding revenue decreases in the range between 8% and 40% relative to less exposed firms. These declines were primarily borne by smaller e-commerce firms, raising questions about the tradeoffs between consumer privacy and the ability of smaller e-commerce and direct-to-consumer firms to succeed in the product market. This paper was accepted by Jean-Pierre Dube, marketing. Funding: This work was supported by the LEC Program on Economics & Privacy, MSI Research Grant [4001820]. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2024.06600 .
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