Program Description: LEC Privacy Fellowship Finalists presented their revised proposals in an academic seminar designed to provide constructive feedback from experts in privacy, data security, and consumer protection.

The 2015 LEC Privacy Fellows will be selected after the Research Roundtable. Selected Fellows will be notified by January 30, 2015 and will present their finalized papers at the LEC Public Policy Conference on the Economics of Privacy & Data Security on June 17, 2015.

 

Measuring the Impact of Disapprobation Using Chernoff Faces

Paul H. M. Bennett, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University

 

Relational Knowledge and the Information Fiduciary

Richard R. W. Brooks, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

 

Measuring the Effect of a Company’s Privacy Incidents on Its Stock Price

Sebastian R. Gay, Lecturer in the Department of Economics, The University of Chicago

 

Industry Self-Regulation of Data Privacy and Security

Siona R. Listokin, Associate Professor, George Mason University School of Policy, Government and International Affairs

 

Regulating Consumer Data Use Through Arbitration

Erin A. O’Hara O’Connor, Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School

 

Assigning Liability in the Cyberspace: Who is Responsible when Data is Lost?

J. Brian O’Roark, Professor of Economics, Robert Morris University

 

What Is the Price of Privacy, Who Pays, How, and Why?

Dima Y. Shamoun, Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

 

Big Data in Agriculture: Property Rights, Privacy and Competition in Ag Data Services

Michael E. Sykuta, Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics

 

An Economic Analysis of Internet Privacy

Abraham L. Wickelgren, Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law