Benjamin Hak-Fung Chiao

Research

My sincere thanks to my dissertation committee members: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (chair), Yan Chen, Michael Cohen, and Jessica Litman. Currently in the job market for a faculty position, I expect to obtain a PhD in Information (concentration: Information Economics) from the School of Information at the University of Michigan within this academic year. I actively engage in research activities in the Incentive-Centered Design, and the Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions groups.

My general interests are 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. A full list of my works is here.

I have involved in the establishment of two new behavioral labs at:
1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School: Center for Experimental Business Research
2. Faculty of Arts and Sciences & Department of Economics at New York University: Center for Experimental Social Science

During my tenure at these labs, I led some open source software production, which eventually sparked my interest in such research.