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This page contains links to a representative subset of my manuscripts. Some of them are published papers, while others are under review. For the complete list of papers, please visit my CV.

Introductory Talks

Alessandro Acquisti. The Economics of Privacy.

Alessandro Acquisti. The Behavioral Economics of Privacy. (Based on a presentation at Google Policy Talks, 2009.)

Alessandro Acquisti. Awareness, Information, and Privacy Decision Making. (Based on a presentation at the OECD Jerusalem Privacy Roundtable, 2010.)

Alessandro Acquisti. Privacy, Economics, and Immediate Gratification: Why Protecting Privacy is Easy, but Selling it Is Not. (Based on a presentation at BlackHat USA, 2004.)

Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks and the Facebook. (Based on a presentation at Computer, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, 2006.)

Literature Reviews

"The Economics of Personal Data and the Economics of Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti. (Preliminary draft. A shorter version was prepared for the OECD Roundtable on the Economics of Personal Data and Privacy, December 1, 2010, Paris, France).

Behavioral Economics of Privacy

"The Impact of Relative Judgments on Concern about Privacy," Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Third round review, Journal of Marketing Research.

"What is Privacy Worth?,"  Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. Second round review, Information Systems Research. (Leading paper, 2010 Future of Privacy Forum's Best "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" Competition.)

"Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure: An Illusion of Control Hypothesis," Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Under review. (Winner, Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, CIST 2010; Runner-up, Best Paper Award, CIST 2010; Leading paper, 2010 Future of Privacy Forum's Best "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" Competition.)

"Disclosure Desire: Understanding when People Disclose Private Information," Leslie John, George Loewenstein, and Alessandro Acquisti. Under review.

"The Paradoxical Effect of Randomized Response Techniques," Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. Under review.

"Strangers on a Plane: Context-dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information," Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein. In press, Journal of Consumer Research, 2010.

"The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study," Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti. In press, Information Systems Research, 2010.

"The Economics and Behavioral Economics of Privacy: A Note" Alessandro Acquisti, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, Hong Kong, Springer LNCS Vol. 60059, 2010. [Invited keynote paper]

"Nudging Privacy: The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information," Alessandro Acquisti. IEEE Security and Privacy, 7(6), 82-85, 2009.

“What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us About Privacy?” Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. In Alessandro Acquisti, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis (eds), Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices, Auerbach Publications (Taylor and Francis Group), 363-377, 2007.

"Privacy and Rationality in Decision Making," Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. IEEE Security and Privacy, 3(1), 26-33, 2005.

"Privacy in Electronic Commerce and the Economics of Immediate Gratification," Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (ACM EC), ACM, 21-29, 2004. (Winner, 2005 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.) [16% acceptance rate]

Economics of Privacy

"Guns, Privacy, and Crime," Alessandro Acquisti and Catherine Tucker. Under review, Quarterly Journal of Economics.

"Data Breaches and Identity Theft: When is Mandatory Disclosure Optimal?," Sasha Romanosky, Richard Sharp, and Alessandro Acquisti. Under review, Management Science.

"Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives," Sasha Romanosky and Alessandro Acquisti. In press, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2010.

"Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?," Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti. In press, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010.

"Conditioning Prices on Purchase History," Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian. Marketing Science, 24(3), 1-15, 2005.

Online Social Networks

"Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data," Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106(27), 10975-10980, 2009. [Commentary by William E. Winkler] [Most downloaded PNAS manuscript in July 2009]

“Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook,” Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4258, Springer, 36-58, 2006. [26% acceptance rate]

"Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks," Ralph Gross and Alessandro Acquisti. Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), ACM, 71-80, 2005. [23% acceptance rate for long papers]