Research – Program on Economics & Privacy


Privacy Fellows & Affiliated Faculty 

Channagiri Ajit, Tejaswi; and Jamison, Mark, “Effects of Conferring Business Resource on Rivals”

Barczentewicz, Mikołaj, “Minimizing Privacy Risks in Regulating Digital Platforms: Interoperability in the EU DMA,” CPI Antitrust Chronicle (2022)

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leccese, Mario; and Wagman, Liad, “How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy

Gay, Sebastien, “Strategic News Bundling and Privacy Breach Disclosures”, 2017 Journal of Cybersecurity 1 (Oxford Academic, 2017)

Kummer, Michael; Kesler, Reinhold; and Schultz, Patrick, “Mobile Applications and Access to Private Data: The Supply Side of the Android Ecosystem

Wagman, Liad; Kim, Jin-Hyuk; and Chan, Jason, “Did Post-9/11 Wiretap Legislation Increase Law Enforcement Productivity?”

Bambauer, Jane, “Biometric Privacy Laws: How a Little-Known Illinois Law Made Facebook Illegal

Mungan, Murat, “Conditional Privacy Rights,” 173 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 114 (No. 1, 2017)

Cooper, James, “Anonymity, Autonomy, and the Collection of Personal Data: Measuring the Privacy Impact of Google’s 2012 Privacy Policy Change

Bambauer, Jane; Loe, Jonathan; and Winkelman, D. Alex, “A Bad Education” 2017 University of Illinois Law Review 109 (2017)

Cooper, James and Wright, Joshua, “The Missing Role of Economics in FTC Privacy Policy

Sykuta, Mike, “Big Data in Agriculture: Property Rights, Privacy, and Competition in Ag Data Services” 19 International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 57 (Issue A, 2016)

Brooks, Richard, “Observability & Verifiability: Informing the Information Fiduciary

Dengler, Sebastian, “Big Data in the Lab – How Do Consumers Fare When Predictive Algorithms Work Against Them?

Listokin, Siona, “Industry Self-Regulation of Consumer Data Privacy and Security”, 32 John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law 15 (2015)

2019

Durable Privacy Legislation: An Evidence-Based Privacy Law that Works for the People

Cambridge Analytica and the Meaning of Privacy Harm
Jane Bambauer

2018

The following papers were presented during 3rd Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference or PEP Research Roundtable for Privacy Fellows

A Government of Laws and Not of MachinesEmily Berman
Privacy Protections and Law Enforcement Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring DatabasesAnne Boustead
Infrastructural Solutions to the Analog Keyhole ProblemLaura Brandimarte & David Sidi
Data Accumulation and the Privacy-Antitrust Interface: Insights from the Facebook Case for the EU and the USGuiseppe Colangelo & Mariateresa Maggiolino
Copyright’s Memory HoleEric Goldman

co-author: Jessica Silbey
The Determinants of Pretrial Risk Assessment EffectivenessChristopher L. Griffin, Jr.
The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture InvestmentJian Jia

co-authors: Ginger Zhe Jin, Liad Wagman
From Identification to Identity Theft: Public Perceptions of Biometric Privacy HarmsMatthew B. Kugler
Antitrust in Digital MarketsJohn Newman
Sponsored Search Advertisement and Consumer PricesEduardo Schnadower Mustri

co-authors: Alessandro Acquisiti and Idris Adjerid
Advertising and Voter Data in Asymmetric Political ContestsPriyanka Sharma

co-author: Liad Wagman
Millennials’ Exposure to Privacy Risk and Vigilance in Using Privacy Controls on Social MediaKaren H. Smith
Platform, Anonymity, and Illegal Actors: Evidence of Whac-a-Mole Enforcement from AirbnbLiad Wagman

co-author: Jia Jian

2017

The following papers were presented at the 2nd Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference

Cryptography and the Economics of Supervisory Information: Balancing Transparency and ConfidentialityMark D. Flood

co-authors: Jonathan Katz, Stephen J. Ong, and Adam Smith
Can Peer-to-Peer Platforms Improve Market Outcomes by Controlling Prices?Talal Rahim
Content Analysis of Cyber Insurance Policies: How do Carriers Write Policies and Price Cyber Risk?Sasha Romanosky
Privacy Regulation and Quality InvestmentYing Lei Toh
Congestion v. Content provision in Net Neutrality: The case of Amazon’s Twitch.tvJosé Francisco Tudón Maldonado

2016

The following papers were presented at the 1st Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference

The Welfare Impact of Targeted Advertising TechnologiesAlessandro Acquisti

co-authors: Veronica Marotta, Yue Wu, Kaifu Zhang
The Perils of Privacy RegulationCaleb S. Fuller
Identity Theft as a Teachable MomentRobert M. Hunt

co-authors: Nathan Blascak, Julia S. Cheney, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Dubravka Ritter, and Michael Vogan
Cyberensuring SecurityJustin (Gus) Hurwitz
The Information Value of Online Social Networks: Lessons from Peer-to-Peer LendingGinger Zhe Jin

co-author: Seth Freedman
A Closer Look at Payment CardsD. Bruce Johnson
When Private Information Settles the Bill: Money and Privacy in Google’s Market for Smartphone ApplicationsMichael E. Kummer

co-author: Patrick Schulte
Hello Barbie: First They Will Monitor You, Then They Will Discriminate Against You. PerfectlyIrina D. Manta

co-author: David S. Olson
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Consumer Reaction to News on Data Breaches and Identity TheftSlava Mikhed

co-author: Michael Vogan
Privacy in Online Markets: A Welfare Analysis of Demand RotationsDaniel P. O’Brien

co-author: Doug Smith
Cybersecurity, Data Breaches and the Economic Loss Doctrine in the Payment Card IndustryDavid W. Opderbeck
Privacy Protection, Personalized Medicine and Genetic TestingSasha Romanosky
The Impact of Access to Consumer Data on the Competitive Effects of Horizontal Mergers and Exclusive DealingCatherine Tucker

co-author: Amalia R. Miller
The Impact of Access to Consumer Data on the Competitive Effects of Horizontal Mergers and Exclusive DealingLiad Wagman

co-authors: Jin‐Hyuk Kim, Abraham L. Wickelgren

2015

Observability & Verifiability: Informing the Information FiduciaryRichard R.W. Brooks
Strategic News Bundling and Privacy Breach DisclosuresSebastian Gay
Industry Self-Regulation of Consumer Data Privacy and Security Siona Robin Listokin-Smith
Protecting Consumer Data Privacy with ArbitrationErin O’Hara O’Connor
The FTC’s Attempts to Regulate Data Security in the Credit Card Industry: An Epic FailJ. Brian O’Roark
Privacy Regulation, Property Rights, and PricesYazji Dima Shamoun
Big Data in Agriculture: Property Rights, Privacy, and Competition in Ag Data ServicesMichael E. Sykuta
An Economic Analysis of Internet Privacy RegulationAbraham L. Wickelgren