Short Bios:
BENJAMIN CHIAO is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics (full-time appointment) and the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (courtesy appointment) at the Peking University Guanghua School of Management. His general interests are the law and economics of information systems and policies, health economics, and experimental method; his specialties are censorship (e.g. anti-spam solutions, unsolicited advertising, the Great Firewall of China), IT infrastructure, and open-content economics. He has worked on open-content production (non-price coordination experiments, its comparison with communism, and optimal liability rules in licensing), standard-setting organizations, and using i) uncensored communication channels and ii) communication buffers (patent pending no. PCT/CN2009/071969) to reduce spam. His research has appeared in, for example, RAND Journal of Economics and China Economic Publishing House (中国经济出版社). He is Director of Peking University Information Society Group. Previously he was Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Research Scientist/Director of Operations at NYU, both in the new labs he helped establish. He obtained his BBA and MSc from HKUST and high school diploma from La Salle College. He defended his PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2009. He was a member of the Incentive-Centered Design and the Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions groups at the University of Michigan. He is Founding Director of Sichuan Teachers, a non-profit organization that provides a market to match non-government organizations with kids affected by the Sichuan Earthquake. His recent invited talks include those in: Academia Sinica, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia U., National Taiwan U., Peking U., Shanghai Jiaotong U., Singapore Management U., Tsinghua U., UC Irvine, U. of Michigan, U. of Toulouse, and U. of Washington. He teaches graduate level theoretical microeconomics, managerial microeconomics and empirical microeconomics, and undergraduate level law and economics of information systems and policies. |
Research News:
(Oct 30, 2009) My students and I have completed a Chinese book called "The Great Firewall of China: The Law and Economics of Internet Censorship" or "中国防火长城--互联网审查的法律经济学" in Chinese. Forthcoming China Economic Publishing House (中国经济出版社). ( It is accepted into the All China Economics International Conference (Dec 2009, Hong Kong). The introduction and abstracts of each chapter are available here. Download:  . The full book is available on request.)
(May 25, 2009) My doctoral student and I just filed a patent application (patent pending no. PCT/CN2009/071969) of our invention that aims to reduce spam. See working paper: Benjamin Chiao and Shi Guang (2009). “Voluntary Delay in Communication Buffers to Reduce Spam.” Download:
(Apr 1, 2009) This is the latest version of our open channel paper: "Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic". Joint work with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. It has been presented around the world in a dozen seminars. Awarded the NET Institute grant. NET Institute Working Paper No. 06-20. Download:
(Forthcoming) Dissertation Title: “Essays in Information Economics.” Dissertation committee members: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (chair), Yan Chen, Michael Cohen, and Jessica Litman. It includes three papers: 1.Benjamin Chiao, “Torts in Open Contents.” 2. Benjamin Chiao, “Experiments in Open Contents.” 3. Benjamin Chiao and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. “Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic”. Details here.
(May 25, 2008) This joint paper is now published in the RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2007: Benjamin Chiao, Josh
Lerner, and Jean Tirole, "The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations:
An Empirical Study".
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