Research
I am interested in information economics,the law and economics of information systems and policies, health economics, and experimental method. My specialties are censorship (e.g. anti-spam solutions, the Great Firewall of China, mathematical modelling), IT infrastructure, and open-content economics.
Publications
Journals
Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole, "The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Study". RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2007. (Earlier versions appeared in: Harvard Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Research Paper No 05-05. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No 11156.)
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Books
Benjamin Chiao (Editor) (2009). 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).
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Working Papers
A. Censorship
(i) The Great Firewall of China
See above.
(ii) Mathematical Modelling
Benjamin Chiao, Kai Yan and Xingbai Xu (2009). "Exchange Rate Models for Censorship Problems." It is accepted into the All China Economics International Conference (Dec 2009, Hong Kong).
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(iii) Anti-Spam Mechanisms
Benjamin Chiao and Shi Guang (2009). “Social Tagging in Communication Buffers: Voluntary Delay to Reduce Spam.”
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Sender's Side
Benjamin Chiao and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (2009), “Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam
Traffic”.
Under review.
(Proceedings of the 34th
Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet
Policy. Net Institute Working Paper No. 06-20. Awarded the NET Institute grant.)
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B. The Economics of Open Contents/Source/Innovation
Benjamin Chiao (2009), “A Tort Model of Open Contents.” For submission to Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
(Earlier versions presented at Academy of Management Conference 2006, and European Academy of Management Conference 2007.)
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Benjamin Chiao (2009), “Modularity and Team Size in Open Content Experiments.” Under revision for resubmission to Management Science.
(An earlier version is distributed as a working paper at the MIT Free/Open Source Research Community. Earlier versions presented at Economic Science Association’s Meetings at Tuscon 2004 and at Hong Kong 2006. Working paper at the MIT Free/Open Source Research Community. Awarded the Rackham Discretionary Fund.)
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Benjamin Chiao (2003), "An Economic Theory of Free and Open Source Software: A Tour from Lighthouse to Chinese-Style Socialism", Proceedings of the International Conference on Open Source 2003. The latest version is distributed as a working paper at the MIT Free/Open Source Research Community.
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In Progress
Yujin Cao, Benjamin Chiao, Xiaolin Wang, Hui Xu, Xingbai Xu (2009). “Vertical Integration and Plant Variety Intellectual Property Protection in China.”
Benjamin Chiao and Shi Guang. “An Experimental Study of Anti-Spam Communication Buffers.”
Benjamin Chiao. “An Economic Analysis of the Copyright Opt-Out Mechanism in Google Book Search.”
Benjamin Chiao. “An Experimental Study of Parallel Music Progression.”
Unpublished
Benjamin Chiao (1999). “The Monetary Rule of Hong Kong”. Class paper under the supervision of Professor Mick Devereux.