Research – Program on Economics & Privacy

“Anonymity and Online Search: Measuring the Privacy Impact Of Google’s 2012 Privacy Policy Change”
James C. Cooper, Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Economics & Privacy, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

“Minimizing Privacy Risks in Regulating Digital Platforms: Interoperability in the EU DMA”
Mikołaj Barczentewicz, Associate Professor in Law,University of Surrey

“Effects of Conferring Business Resource on Rivals”
Tejaswi Channagiri Ajit, Assistant Professor, The Nathan M. Bisk College of Business at Florida Tech
Mark Jamison, Director and Gerald Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center and the Digital Markets Initiative, University of Florida Warrington College of Business; Nonresident Senior Fellow,American Enterprise Institute

How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy
Ginger Zhe Jin, Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
Mario Leccese, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Liad Wagman, Dean and Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lally School of Management, Academic Affiliate, International Center for Law and Economics

“Cambridge Analytica and the Meaning of Privacy Harm”
“Durable Privacy Legislation: An Evidence-Based Privacy Law that Works for the People”
Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law

Are Firms and Consumers Investing Enough in Data Security?
Sasha RomanoskySenior Policy Researcher, RAND 

“Did Post-9/11 Wiretap Legislation Increase Law Enforcement Productivity?”
Jason Chan, Associate Professor, Mary and Jim Lawrence Fellow, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
Jin-Hyuk Kim, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Liad Wagman, Dean and Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lally School of Management, Academic Affiliate, International Center for Law and Economics

“Sponsored Search Advertisement and Consumer Prices”
Alessandro Acquisti, Trustees Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Idris Adjerid, Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Eduardo Schnadower Mustri, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

How Consumers Value Digital Privacy: New Survey Evidence
Caleb S. Fuller, Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College Winklevoss School of Business 

“A Government of Laws and Not of Machines”
Emily Berman, Professor of Law, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law, and Assistant Dean of Faculty Development, University of Houston Law Center

“Effects of Privacy Protections on Law Enforcement Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Databases”
Anne Boustead, Associate Professor, University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy

“Infrastructural Solutions to the Analog Keyhole Problem”
Laura Brandimarte, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona Eller College of Management
David Sidi, PhD Candidate with the School of Information, The University of Arizona

“Data Accumulation and the Privacy-Antitrust Interface: Insights from the Facebook Case for the EU and the US”
Guiseppe Colangelo, Associate Professor of Law and Economics, Università degli Studi della Basilicata
Mariateresa Maggiolino, Professor of Law, Universita’ Bocconi

The Missing Role of Economics in FTC Privacy Policy
James C. Cooper, Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Economics & Privacy, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Joshua D. Wright, Founding Partner, Lodestar Law and Economics, PLLC

“Copyright’s Memory Hole”
Eric Goldman, Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Law, and Co-Director, High Tech Law Institute, Santa Clara University School of Law

“The Determinants of Pretrial Risk Assessment Effectiveness”
Christopher L. Griffin, Jr., Director of Empirical & Policy Research, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

“Platform, Anonymity, and Illegal Actors: Evidence of Whac-a-Mole Enforcement from Airbnb”
Jian Jia, Illinois Institute of Technology
Liad Wagman, Dean and Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lally School of Management, Academic Affiliate, International Center for Law and Economics

“The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment”
Jian Jia, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ginger Zhe Jin, Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
Liad Wagman, Dean and Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lally School of Management, Academic Affiliate, International Center for Law and Economics

“How Should We Think About Biometric Privacy Harms?”
Matthew B. Kugler, Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of LawAre

“Advertising and Voter Data in Biased Political Contests”
Priyanka Sharma, Associate Professor of Economics, Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business
Liad Wagman, Dean and Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lally School of Management, Academic Affiliate, International Center for Law and Economics

“Millennials’ Exposure to Privacy Risk and Vigilance in Using Privacy Controls on Social Media”
Karen H. Smith, Professor of Marketing, Texas State University

“A Bad Education”
Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Jonathan LoeAssociate, Biskind, Hunt & Semro, PLC
D. Alex WinkelmanAttorney, Winkelman Law PLLC

Biometric Privacy Laws: How a Little-Known Illinois Law Made Facebook Illegal
Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law

Conditional Privacy Rights” 
Murat MunganProfessor of Law and Director, Law & Economics Program, Texas A&M School of Law

The Welfare Impact of Targeted Advertising Technologies
Alessandro Acquisti, Trustees Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Veronica MarottaLead Data Scientist, IntelyCare
Yue WuPhD Student, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
Kaifu Zhang, e-Commerce Group Vice President and Head of AI Initiative @ Alibaba International Digital Commerce, Alibaba Group

Big Data in the Lab – How Do Consumers Fare When Predictive Algorithms Work Against Them?
Sebastian DenglerResearcher and Lecturer, Tilburg University

“Observability & Verifiability: Informing the Information Fiduciary”
Richard R.W. Brooks, Emilie M. Bullowa Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Strategic News Bundling and Privacy Breach Disclosures
Sebastian Gay, Director of Financial Analysis, US Congressional Budget Office

Industry Self-Regulation of Consumer Data Privacy and Security
Siona Listokin, Associate Professor, George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government

Protecting Consumer Data Privacy with Arbitration
Erin O’Hara O’Connor, Dean and Donald J. Weidner Chair, Florida State University College of Law

“The FTC’s Attempts to Regulate Data Security in the Credit Card Industry: An Epic Fail”
J. Brian O’Roark, University Professor of Economics and B.K. Simon Fellow, Robert Morris University

“Privacy Regulation, Property Rights, and Prices”
Yazji Dima Shamoun, Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business

Big Data in Agriculture: Property Rights, Privacy, and Competition in Ag Data Services
Michael E. Sykuta, Associate Professor and Executive Director, The Financial Research Institute, University of Missouri

An Economic Analysis of Internet Privacy Regulation
Abraham L. Wickelgren, Fred and Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law Professor, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

** Authors’ positions and titles reflect current positions (when available) as of May 2025