Short Bios:
BENJAMIN CHIAO was born in Hong Kong with his root in Chaoyang, Shantou. He is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Director of Information Society Group. He obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Previously he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the Peking University Guanghua School of Management, Research Scientist/Director of Operations at New York University, and Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is Founding Director of a non-profit organization called Sichuan Teachers and Deputy Secretary General (China Area) of Mutual Help International. He is also Special Representative of the Office for the Vice President of Development at the University of Michigan. His general interests are applied microeconomics, law and economics of information systems and policies, and intellectual property. His specialties are censorship(e.g., the Great Firewall of China), anti-spam economic mechanisms (e.g., i. uncensored communication channels [an almost identical method was adopted by Netease for its 310 million users] and ii. communication buffers [patent pending]), grading mechanisms (his adjustable weight grading scheme is beginning to be used in Beijing and Shanghai universities) and open-content/source. His research has appeared in, for example, RAND Journal of Economics. His recent invited talks include those in: Academia Sinica, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia U., National Taiwan U., Peking U., Shanghai Jiaotong U., Singapore Management U., Tsinghua U., UC Irvine, U. of Michigan, U. of Toulouse, and U. of Washington. He teaches graduate level theoretical microeconomics, managerial microeconomics and empirical microeconomics, and undergraduate level law and economics of information systems and policies.
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Research News:
(May 21, 2012) To present Benjamin Chiao and Ling Hu (2012). "Vertical Integration and Network Convegence in China." at the China Internet Research Conference at the University of Southern California.
(Dec 15, 2011) To present Benjamin Chiao and Fan Wang (2011). “A Field Experiment on Exams with Weights Chosen by Students.” at the Annual Meeting of the China Economic Association in Shanghai, China.
(Dec 11, 2011) To present Benjamin Chiao and Fan Wang (2011). “A Field Experiment on Exams with Weights Chosen by Students.” at the Asia Pacific Meeting of Economic Science Association in Xiamen, China.
(May 23, 2011) To present “The Path of Internet Regulation in China” at the China Internet Research Conference in Washington DC.
(Sep 18, 2010) To present "Copyright Debates in Digital Libraries: A Law and Economic Analysis of Google Book Search" at the Beijing First Global World City Conference.
(Aug 25, 2010) NetEase, the largest email service provider in China, has made available to its roughly 300 million user acccounts an anti-spam feature very similar to the open channel mechanism Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and I proposed in 2006. See the updated paper here.
(Jun 30, 2010) To present "Some Economics Issues of Internet Management in China" at the China Internet Research Conference in Beijing.
(June 22-24, 2010) To conduct a field study of health information systems in Wenchuan, Sichuan.
(Jun 25, 2010) To present "The Great Firewall of China" at the Southwest University of Economics and Finance in Chengdu, Sichuan.
(Apr 30, 2010) As a Co-PI, colleagues in the Peking University China Center for Pharmaeconomics & Outcome Research and I have obtained US$100,000 funds, through Cisco Guanghua's Institute for Leadership, on the evaluation of the effects of new IT infrastructure on medical care in the Sichuan Earthquake area.
(May 25, 2009) My doctoral student and I just filed a patent application (patent pending no. PCT/CN2009/071969) of our invention that aims to reduce spam. See working paper: Benjamin Chiao and Shi Guang (2009). “Voluntary Delay in Communication Buffers to Reduce Spam.” Download: 
(Apr 1, 2009) This is the latest version of our open channel paper: "Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic". Joint work with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. It has been presented around the world in a dozen seminars. Awarded the NET Institute grant. NET Institute Working Paper No. 06-20. Download:
(May 25, 2008) This joint paper is now published in the RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2007: Benjamin Chiao, Josh
Lerner, and Jean Tirole, "The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations:
An Empirical Study".
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