Research
I am interested in information economics, the law and economics of information systems and policies, and experimental method. My specialties are open-content economics, and economic solutions to spam.
Dissertation
Title: “Essays in Information Economics.”
Chair: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
Committee Members: Yan Chen, Michael Cohen, and Jessica Litman
Paper 1: Benjamin Chiao (2007), “Torts in 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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Paper 2: Benjamin Chiao (2007), “Experiments in Open Contents.” Under revision for resubmission to Management Science.
(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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Paper 3: Benjamin Chiao and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (2007), “Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic”. For submission to Management Science. (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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Other 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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Conference Proceedings
Benjamin Chiao, "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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Benjamin Chiao (2007). “Using Voluntary Delay in Communication Buffers to Curb Spam: An Experimental Study.”
Benjamin Chiao (2007). “Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam: An Experimental Study.”
Benjamin Chiao (2007). “An Economic Analysis of the Copyright Opt-Out Mechanism in Google Book Search.”
Benjamin Chiao (2007). “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.