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Alessandro Acquisti

Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College

Professor of Information Systems and Public Policy

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

United States

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Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

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Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

Forthcoming in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-30
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014
Sasha Romanosky, David A. Hoffman and Alessandro Acquisti
RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 3,007 (2,641)

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data breach, identity theft, privacy litigation, docket analysis, docketology

Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp. 74-104, 2014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2014
Sasha Romanosky, David A. Hoffman and Alessandro Acquisti
RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 1 (568,162)

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An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination Via Online Social Networks

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2016
Alessandro Acquisti and Christina M. Fong
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 1,702 (2,313)
Citation 1

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Privacy, Economics, Social Networking Sites, Labor Discrimination

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The Best of Strangers: Context Dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Leslie K. John, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein
Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 1,573 (6,984)
Citation 4

Abstract:

Privacy, Behavioral Economics, Laboratory Experiment, Consumer Research, Disclosure

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Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft? (Updated)

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 256-286, 2011
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2013
Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang and Alessandro Acquisti
RAND Corporation, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 875 (20,718)
Citation 7

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data breach disclosure, security breach notification, economics of information security, identity theft, fixed effects regression, difference in difference estimation

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Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2010
Sasha Romanosky and Alessandro Acquisti
RAND Corporation and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 789 (19,499)
Citation 2

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information disclosure, security breach notification, data breaches, identity theft, privacy costs, ex ante safety regulation, ex post liability

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The Economics of Privacy

Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2016, Sloan Foundation Economics Research Paper No. 2580411
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2016
Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis R. Taylor and Liad Wagman
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College, Duke University - Department of Economics and Illinois Institute of Technology - Stuart School of Business, IIT
Downloads 440 (1,748)

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Information Economics, Privacy, Privacy Policies

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Modeling of Marketing Channels: Implications for Both Fields and a Call for Future Research

Marketing Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
Robert J. Meyer, Joachim Vosgerau, Vishal P. Singh, Joel Urbany, Gal Zauberman, Michael I. Norton, Tony Haitao Cui, Brian T. Ratchford, Alessandro Acquisti, David R. Bell and Barbara E. Kahn
University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Notre Dame - Department of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Harvard Business School - Marketing Unit, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, University of Texas at Dallas, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
Downloads 427 (48,161)
Citation 2

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marketing channels, game theory, behavioral decision research

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What's It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks

NET Institute Working Paper No. 06-29
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Nov 2006
Janice Tsai, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti and Christina M. Fong
Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science and Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 370 (56,273)

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9.

Conditioning Prices on Purchase History

SIMS Working Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Nov 2002
Alessandro Acquisti and Hal R. Varian
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and University of California, Berkeley - School of Information
Downloads 328 (69,661)
Citation 37

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Price discrimination, Price conditioning, Privacy, Ecommerce, Microeconomics

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Beyond the Turk: An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Platforms for Crowdsourcing Online Behavioral Research

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Eyal Peer, Sonam Samat, Laura Brandimarte and Alessandro Acquisti
Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 253 (22,886)

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'Heads or Tails?' – A Reachability Bias in Binary Choice

Forthcoming in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Jan 2014
Maya Bar-Hillel, Eyal Peer and Alessandro Acquisti
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 238 (94,672)

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acquiescence bias; order effects; randomness cognition; reachability; response bias

12.

'I Cheated, But Only a Little' – Partial Confessions to Unethical Behavior

Forthcoming in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 May 2013 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2013
Eyal Peer, Alessandro Acquisti and Shaul Shalvi
Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE)
Downloads 84 (221,642)

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confessions; unethical behavior; negative emotions, decision making, credibility

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Job Creation And Job Destruction In Russia: Some Preliminary Evidence From Enterprise-Level Data

Trinity Economic Technical Paper No. 1/00
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Oct 2001
Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and University of Bologna - School of Economics, Management, and Statistics
Downloads 78 (248,397)
Citation 4

Abstract:

labor dynamics, economics of transition

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An Online Survey Experiment on Ambiguity and Privacy

Communications & Strategies, No. 88, 4th Quarter 2012, pp. 19-39
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jan 2014
Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and Pennsylvania State University
Downloads 67 (167,969)

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privacy, ambiguity, valuation of personal information, survey experiment

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Reputation as a Sufficient Condition for Data Quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Behavior Research Methods, 2013
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 05 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Eyal Peer, Joachim Vosgerau and Alessandro Acquisti
Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration, Tilburg School of Economics and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 65 (220,172)

Abstract:

Online research; Amazon Mechanical Turk; Data quality; Reputation

16.

Not All Privacy Is Created Equal: The Welfare Impact of Targeted Advertising

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Apr 2017
Veronica Marotta, Kaifu Zhang and Alessandro Acquisti
Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, INSEAD and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
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Informational Privacy, Targeted Advertising

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Choice Architecture, Framing, and Cascaded Privacy Choices

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Jan 2017
Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein
Mendoza College of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 0 (176,918)

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Choice Architecture, Privacy, Behavioral Economics, Policy

18.

Nudges for Privacy and Security: Understanding and Assisting Users’ Choices Online

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Oct 2016
Alessandro 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
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College, Mendoza College of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science and Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information, Carnegie Mellon University, Syracuse University - School of Information Studies and Carnegie Mellon University
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Privacy, Security, Nudge, Soft Paternalism, Behavioral Economics

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Beyond the Privacy Paradox: Objective versus Relative Risk in Privacy Decision Making

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Apr 2016
Idris Adjerid, Eyal Peer and Alessandro Acquisti
Mendoza College of Business, Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
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Behavioral Economcis, Privacy, Privacy Paradox, Reference Dependence, Policy

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Data Breaches and Identity Theft: When is Mandatory Disclosure Optimal?

TPRC 2010
Posted: 23 Jan 2012
Sasha Romanosky, Alessandro Acquisti and Richard Sharp
RAND Corporation, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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'Intelligent' vs. Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate

Trinity College Economic Technical Paper 19/98
Posted: 08 Sep 1998
Alessandro Acquisti and Mario Baldassarri
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and University of Rome I - Department of Public Economics

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Von Neumann's Legacy: 'Intelligent' Capital in a Weightless Economy

Trinity Economic Technical Paper No. 18/98
Posted: 08 Sep 1998
Alessandro Acquisti
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College

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Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Trinity Economic Technical Papers Series, No.98/6
Posted: 17 Mar 1998
Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti
University of Bologna - School of Economics, Management, and Statistics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College

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Total Downloads: 31    Citations: 7
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1.

Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Jul 2011
Sasha Romanosky, David A. Hoffman and Alessandro Acquisti
RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 0 (2,706)

Abstract:

data breach, data breach litigation, docket analysis, identity theft

2.

Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2010
Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang and Alessandro Acquisti
RAND Corporation, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Downloads 0 (20,718)
Citation 7

Abstract:

Data breach disclosure, security breach notification, economics of information security, identity theft, fixed effects regression, difference in difference estimation

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