Data versus Collateral

Balancing collateral efficiency versus investor protection

Minimising Collateral Damage: Privacy-Preserving Investigative Data Acquisition Platform

Investigators often define invasion of privacy as collateral damage. Inquiries that require gathering data from third parties, such as banks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or employers are likely to impact the relationship between the data subject and the data controller. In this research a novel privacy-preserving approach to mitigate collateral damage during the acquisition process is pre...

Housing Collateral and Consumption Insurance Across US Regions: Data Appendix

Definition The concept of a metropolitan areas is that of a core area containing a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities having a high degree of economic and social integration with that core. They include metropolitan statistical areas (MSA’s), consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (CMSA’s), and primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSA’s). An area that qualifie...

Data Confidentiality Versus Chase

We present a generalization of a strategy, called SCIKD, proposed in [7] that allows to reduce a disclosure risk of confidential data in an information system S [10] using methods based on knowledge discovery. The method proposed in [7] protects confidential data against Rule-based Chase, the null value imputation algorithm driven by certain rules [2], [4]. This method identifies a minimal subs...

Collateral Crises⇤

Short-term collateralized debt, private money, is efficient if agents are willing to lend without producing costly information about the collateral backing the debt. When the economy relies on such informationally-insensitive debt, firms with low quality collateral can borrow, generating a credit boom and an increase in output. Financial fragility is endogenous; it builds up over time as inform...