Short Bios:
BENJAMIN CHIAO was born in Hong Kong with his root in Chaoyang, Shantou. He is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Research Fellow at the Peking University Center for Health Economic Research, and Director of Information Society Group. He obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Previously he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the Peking University Guanghua School of Management, Research Scientist/Director of Operations at New York University, Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is Founding Director of a non-profit organization called Sichuan Teachers and Deputy Secretary General (China Area) of Guojihuzhuwang("Mutual Help International"). His general interests are applied microeconomics, law and economics of information systems and policies, and intellectual property. His specialties are censorship(e.g., the Great Firewall of China), anti-spam economic mechanisms (e.g., i. uncensored communication channels [an almost identical method was adopted by Netease for its 310 million users] and ii. communication buffers [patent pending no. PCT/CN2009/071969]), and open-content/source. He is beginning to research on health information systems. His research has appeared in, for example, RAND Journal of Economics. 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
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Research News:
(Sep 18, 2010) To present "Copyright Debates in Digital Libraries: A Law and Economic Analysis of Google Book Search" at the Beijing First Global World City Conference.
(Aug 25, 2010) NetEase, the largest email service provider in China, has made available to its roughly 300 million user acccounts an anti-spam feature very similar to the open channel mechanism Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and I proposed in 2006. See the updated paper here.
(Jun 30, 2010) To present "Some Economics Issues of Internet Management in China" at the China Internet Research Conference in Beijing.
(June 22-24, 2010) To conduct a field study of health information systems in Wenchuan, Sichuan.
(Jun 25, 2010) To present "The Great Firewall of China" at the Southwest University of Economics and Finance in Chengdu, Sichuan.
(Apr 30, 2010) As a Co-PI, colleagues in the Peking University China Center for Pharmaeconomics & Outcome Research and I have obtained US$100,000 funds, through Cisco Guanghua's Institute for Leadership, on the evaluation of the effects of new IT infrastructure on medical care in the Sichuan Earthquake area.
(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:
(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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