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Registration is required to attend in person.  Please register at the Workshop on Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy registration page.

The Workshop on Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy will bring together economists, academics, and other experts to examine how the agency can better understand and measure consumer injuries and benefits that may result from the collection, use, or disclosure of consumer data. Topics will include: quantifying informational injuries and the potential benefits of consumer data collection and use; the impacts of data breaches on consumers and efforts to minimize injuries; the costs and benefits of behavioral and contextual advertising; and measuring consumers’ privacy preferences, beliefs, and decisions.

 

  • Agenda

    Thursday, February 26

    9:30 am

    Welcome
    9:35 am

    Opening Remarks

    Andrew N. Ferguson, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
    9:45 am

    Panel 1: Quantifying Injuries & Benefits to Consumers (Part One)

    Moderators:

    Benjamin Wiseman, Associate Director, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Federal Trade Commission

    Daniel Wood, Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission 

     

    Panelists:

    Alessandro Acquisti, T. Wilson Professor in Management & Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan

    Avinash Collis, Assistant Professor, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

    Ginger Jin, Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics, University of Maryland

    Catherine Tucker, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management & Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan
    10:45 am

    Break
    11:00 am

    Panel 2: Quantifying Injuries & Benefits to Consumers (Part Two)

    Moderators:

    Mark Eichorn, Assistant Director, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Federal Trade Commission

    Laura Hosken, Economist, Federal Trade Commission

     

    Panelists:

    Michael Baye, Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

    Howard Beales, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the George Washington School of Business

    Omri Ben-Shahar, Leo and Eileen Herzel Distinguished Service Professor of Law & Kearney Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School

    Malika Korganbekova, Assistant Professor of Marketing and Fishman Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    12:00 pm

    Lunch Break
    1:10 pm

    Afternoon Remarks: Privacy and Data Security Economics at the Federal Trade Commission

    Daniel Wood, Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
    1:20 pm

    Panel 3:  Data Breaches, Impacts on Consumers, and Efforts to Minimize Injuries

    Moderators:

    Erik Jones, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

    Benjamin Smith, Economist, Federal Trade Commission 

     

    Panelists:

    Tyler Moore, Professor of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, University of Tulsa

    Jeff Prince, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University

    Sebastian Schuetz, Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder

    Sunhil Wattal, Associate Dean, Temple University
    2:20 pm

    Break
    2:30 pm

    Panel 4:  The Costs and Benefits of Behavioral & Contextual Advertising 

    Moderators:

    David Walko, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

    Douglas Smith, Economist, Federal Trade Commission

     

    Panelists:

    Cristobal Cheyre, Assistant Professor, Information Science, Cornell University

    Ananya Sen, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

    Nils Wernerfelt, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business
    3:30 pm

    Break
    3:45 pm

    Panel 5:   Measuring Consumer Preferences, Beliefs, and Decisions

    Moderators:

    Erik Jones, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

    Eric Spurlino, Economist, Federal Trade Commission

     

    Panelists:

    Serge Egelman, Research Director of the Usable Security & Privacy Group at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley

    Beibei Li, Professor of IT and Management, Carnegie Mellon University

    Tesary Lin, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Boston University

    Andrey Simonov, Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
    4:45 pm

    Closing Remarks

    Chris Mufarrige, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection

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