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. Download: PDF.
Books
Benjamin Chiao (Editor) (2010). The Great Firewall of China: Some 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). China Economic Publishing House (中国经济出版社).
Working Papers
A. Censorship
(i) The Great Firewall of China
See above.
Benjamin Chiao and Shi Guang (2009). “Voluntary Delay in Communication Buffers to Reduce Spam.”. Download. PDF. Submitted.
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.). Download: PDF.
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.) Download: PDF.
Benjamin Chiao (2010), “Modularity and Team Size in Open Content Experiments.” Submitted. Download: PDF.
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. Download: PDF.
In Progress
Benjamin Chiao (and colleagues in the Peking University China Center for Pharmaeconomics & Outcome Research). “The Effects of New IT Infrastructure on Medical Care in the Sichuan Earthquake Area.”
Benjamin Chiao (and colleagues in the Tsinghua University Network Research Center) on various Internet infrastructure markets
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.