Research Overview
My research interests lie at the overlap of information
technology, society, and economics. They include,
primarily, the economics and behavioral economics of
privacy and information security, and privacy in online
social networks. I am maintaining a page with resources on
the
economics of privacy. I am interested in the economic impact of privacy
protection and privacy intrusions, the relations between
privacy and economic rationality, and the dichotomy
between expressed privacy attitudes and actual revealed
behavior.
My previous research interests included the many ways the
interaction and interconnection of human and artificial
agents affect highly networked information economies,
producing an hybrid form of capital that I call
intelligent capital. They also included voter-verifiable
electronic schemes
for receipt-free, universally verifiable elections with
write-in ballots
A list by
publication type with
links to published articles and working papers is included
in my
CV.
Links to some of my articles together with citation
records may also be found from my
Google Scholar page.
Some papers are also available from my
SSRN page.
A list of selected talks can be found
here.
Introductory Papers
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Privacy and Human Behavior in the Age of
Information, Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte, and George
Loewenstein, Science, 347(6221), 2015.
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The Economics of Privacy, Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis Taylor, and Liad
Wagman. Journal of Economic Literature, 54(2), 2016.
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Nudges for Privacy and Security: Understanding and
Assisting Users' Choices Online, Alessando Acquisti, Idris Adjerid, Rebecca Hunt
Balebako, Laura Brandimarte, Lorrie Faith Cranor,
Saranga Komanduri, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Norman Sadeh,
Florian Schaub, Manya Sleeper, Yang Wang, and Shomir
Wilson, to appear in ACM Computing Surveys, 2017.