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.