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Alessandro Acquisti

Carnegie Mellon University
Susan Athey

Harvard University
danah boyd

Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
Erik Brynjolfsson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. Ryan Calo

Stanford University
Joshua Gans

University of Toronto
Eric Goldman

Santa Clara University
James Grimmelmann

New York Law School
Chris Hoofnagle

University of California, Berkeley
Helen Nissenbaum

New York University
John Palfrey

Harvard University
Frank Pasquale

Seton Hall University
Ira Rubinstein

New York University
James Speta

Northwestern University
Katherine Strandburg

New York University
Joseph Turow

University of Pennsylvania
Siva Vaidhyanathan

University of Virginia
Barbara van Schewick

Stanford University
Hal R. Varian

University of California, Berkeley
Kevin Werbach

University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Zittrain

Harvard University

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Beyond IP: How Intellectual Property and Technology Influence Other Areas Of Law

February 23, 2012, Chicago, IL
Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: Obstacles and Opportunities

April 12, 2012, Berkeley, CA
Institute for Law and Economics Workshop: Alessandro Acquisti

May 08, 2012, Chicago, IL
A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism

May 22, 2012, Cambridge, MA
Conference on Web Privacy Measurement (WPM)

May 31, 2012, Berkeley, CA
Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation

June 21, 2012, Chicago, IL

Internet

Different business models have evolved for providing information on the Internet, including search engines, which make money from advertising; subscription web sites; and free web sites which drive off-line sales. Scholars examine the evolution of this marketplace and its implications for content providers and businesses.

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Research Articles On This Issue	Author	Year
Access Controlled - The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace	John Palfrey et al	2010
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering	John Palfrey et al	2008
Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising	Helen Nissenbaum et al	2010
Ad-sponsored Business Models and Compatibility Incentives of Social Networks	Feng Zhu	2008
Affiliation Effect in First-Price Auctions, The	Guofu Tan and Joris Pinske	2005
Analysis of Google Log Retention Policies, An	Helen Nissenbaum and Vincent Toubiana	2011
Are Ratings Informative Signals? The Analysis of the Netflix Data	Ivan Maryanchyk	2008
Author's Place in the Future of Copyright, The	Jane Ginsburg	2008
Behavioural Targeting of Online Advertisements and the Future of Data Protection	Andrea Matwyshyn	2009
Beyond Competition and Innovation: The Need for Qualified Transparency in Internet Intermediaries	Frank Pasquale	2010
Broadband Bonus, The: Estimating Broadband Internet's Economic Value	Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt	2011
Censorship 2.0	John Palfrey et al	2008
Challenge of Developing Effective Public Policy on the Use of Social Media by Youth, The	John Palfrey	2010
Clash of the Titans: Does Internet Use Reduce Television Viewing?	Stan Liebowitz and Alejandro Zentner	2009
Collective Privacy	Lior Strahilevitz	2010
Conditioning Prices on Purchase History	Hal R. Varian and Alessandro Acquisti	2002
Consumer Search on the Internet	Babur De Los Santos	2008
Consumers' Understanding of Privacy Rules in the Marketplace: Findings from a National Survey	Joseph Turow et al	2008
Contextual Approach to Privacy Online, A	Helen Nissenbaum	2011
Demand for Products Linked to Public Goods, The: Evidence from an Online Field Experiment	Brian McManus and Richard Bennet	2008
Digital Media Distribution and Playback on Computers - An Overview	David S. Evans et al	2005
Dynamic Model of Sponsored Search Advertising, A	Song Yao and Carl Mela	2008
Economic Assessment of UCITA, An	Robert W. Hahn and Anne Layne-Farrar	2001
Economics of Internet Search, The	Hal R. Varian	2007
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, the First Amendment, and Internet Speech	Molly S. Van Houweling	2005
Equilibrium Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions: Theory and Evidence	Tilman Borgers et al	2007
Estimating Search with Learning	Sergei Koulayev	2008
Federal Search Commission? Access, Fairness, and Accountability in the Law of Search	Frank Pasquale and Oren Bracha	2008
Free Speech and the Myth of the Internet as an Unintermediated Experience	Christopher Yoo	2009
Freedom of Association in a Networked World: First Amendment Regulation of Relational Surveillance	Katherine Strandburg	2008
From Preemption to Circumvention: If Technology Regulates, Why Do We Need Regulation (And Vice Versa)?	Helen Nissenbaum
From Products to Services: The Software Industry in the Internet Era	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2007
Future of Reputation, The: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet	Daniel J. Solove	2007
Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It, The	Jonathan Zittrain	2008
Generative Internet, The	Jonathan Zittrain	2006
Guest Editors' Introduction: Lawyers and Technologists: Joined at the Hip?	Ira Rubinstein and James X. Dempsey	2006
History of the Internet, The: The Missing Narratives	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2005
Holding Internet Service Providers Accountable	Doug Lichtman and Eric Posner	2006
Home, Home on the Web and other Fourth Amendment Implications of Technosocial Change	Katherine Strandburg	2011
Ideological Segregation in Online News Consumption: Preliminary Evidence	Matt Gentzkow	2010
Impact of Targeting Technology on Advertising Markets and Media Competition, The	Susan Athey and Joshua Gans	2010
Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling of Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords	Benjamin Edelman et al	2007
Internet and Local Wages, The: A Puzzle	Shane Greenstein et al	2012
Internet Architecture and Innovation	Barbara van Schewick	2010
Internet is Closing to Innovation, The	Jonathan Zittrain	2008
Internet Nondiscrimination Principles: Commercial Ethics for Carriers and Search Engines	Frank Pasquale	2008
Internet Points of Control	Jonathan Zittrain	2003
Internet Retail Demand: Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition	Glenn Ellison and Sarah Fisher Ellison	2006
Introduction of Software Products and Services Through Public “Beta” Launches	Amit Mehra and Gireesh Shrimali	2008
Is the Internet a Maturing Market?	Christopher Yoo	2010
Last Chance to Opt Out of Google Book Settlement	Pamela Samuelson	2010
Lawrence Lessig's Big Idea	Lawrence Lessig	2008
Lessons about Markets from the Internet	Glenn Ellison and Sarah Fisher Ellison	2005
Local Nets: Filtering and the Internet Governance Problem	John Palfrey	2005
Map of Commerce, The: Internet Search, Competition, and the Circular Flow of Information	Daniel Spulber	2009
Market Entry in E-Commerce	Maximilian Kasy and Michael Kummer	2008
Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, The	Tim Wu	2010
Mediated Book, The	Randal Picker	2009
Network Neutrality and the False Promise of Zero-Price Regulation	C. Scott Hemphill	2008
Next Digital Decade, The	John Palfrey et al	2011
Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age	Joseph Turow	2006
No Cop on the Beat: Underenforcement in E-Commerce and Cybercrime	Peter Swire	2009
Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations: Lessons from the Internet	Shane Greenstein	2011
Online Ad Auctions	Hal R. Varian	2009
Online Advertising, Identity and Privacy	Randal Picker	2009
Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment: The Case of Sponsored Search Auctions	Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz	2006
Optimal Information Disclosure	Ilya Segal and Luis Rayo	2009
Optimal Search Auctions	Jacques Cremer et al	2007
Platform Syphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content	Joshua Gans and Simon P. Anderson	2011
Position Auctions	Hal R. Varian	2006
Position Auctions with Consumer Search	Susan Athey and Glenn Ellison	2008
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Immunity: An Application to Cyberspace	Keith Hylton	2007
Pro-Self-Harm and the Visibility of Youth-Generated Problematic Content	danah boyd et al	2011
Public Policy Towards the Internet and Development	Jacques Cremer	2001
Recommender Systems and their Effects on Consumers: The Fragmentation Debate	Kartik Hosanagar and Daniel M. Fleder	2008
Re-evaluating the Theory and Realities of Online Contracts	Philip J. Weiser	2009
Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on a Filtered Internet	John Palfrey	2006
Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information	Lior Strahilevitz	2007
Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing, A: Termination-Based Price Discrimination...	Doh-Shin Jeon and Sjaak Hurkens	2008
Rethinking Television in the Digital Age	Joseph Turow	2010
Revenue Analysis of a Family of Ranking Rules for Keyword Auctions	Sebastian Lahai and David M. Pennock	2007
Revolutions Were Tweeted, The: Information Flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions	danah boyd et al	2011
Search Cost Model of Obfuscation, A	Glenn Ellison and Alexander Wolitzky	2009
Search Engine Advertising: Pricing Ads to Context	Catherine Tucker and Avi Goldfarb	2007
Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine Utopianism	Eric Goldman	2006
Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet	Glenn Ellison and Sarah Fisher Ellison	2009
Skewed Bidding in Pay Per Action Auctions for Online Advertising	Susan Athey et al	2009
Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies	danah boyd and Alice Marwick	2011
Software and Internet Law	Mark Lemley et al	2001
Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions	Benjamin Edelman and Michael Ostrovsky	2007
Strategic Bidding in Hybrid CPC/CPM Auctions	Kenneth C. Wilbur and Yi Zhu	2008
Structure of Search Engine Law, The	James Grimmelmann	2007
The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics	danah boyd and Alice Marwick	2011
Thinking Critically About Advertising and Consumer Culture	Joseph Turow	2009
Timing is Everything? The Effects of Timing and Placement of Online Privacy Indicators	Alessandro Acquisti et al	2009
TrackMeNot: Resisting Surveillance in Web Search	Helen Nissenbaum and Daniel C. Howe	2009
Troubling Trend Toward Trade Secrecy in Rankings and Ratings, The	Frank Pasquale	2011
Trusting the Net in Developing Countries: Peer Production of Internet Governance	John Palfrey et al	2004
Unregulating Online Harassment	Eric Goldman	2010
Vernacular Resistance to Data Obfuscation and Analysis: A Political Theory of Obfuscation	Helen Nissenbaum and Finn Brunton	2011
What Makes them Click: Empirical Analysis of Consumer Demand for Internet Search Advertising	Ilya Segal and Przemyslaw Jeziorski	2009