School Of Computing
National University of Singapore
School of Computing
Department of Information Systems
Ivan PNG Paak Liang

Dr. Png is the Lim Kim San Professor in the School of Business and Professor of Information Systems and Economics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2001-03, he was Vice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Education, and 2000-01, Dean of the School of Computing.

Previously, Dr. Png was with the Anderson School, University of California, Los Angeles (Assistant Professor 1985-90, Associate Professor 1990-95, Professor 1995-96). He has also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.  He was a nominated MP, 2005-06.

Dr. Png is an independent director of Hyflux Water Trust Management Pte Ltd and Healthway Medical Services.

Research Interests
Economics of pricing, copyright, and privacy.
 
Current Projects
"Social Interaction, Observational Learning, and Privacy: the "Do Not Call" Registry", April 2008 [with Khim Yong Goh and Kai-lung Hui].

"Buyer Uncertainty and Two-Part Pricing of Felicitous vis-à-vis Distress Goods: Theory with Evidence from New York Restaurants", April 2008 [with Hao Wang].

"On the Reliability of Software Piracy Statistics", March 2008, Tables.

Selected Publications
Consumer Privacy and Marketing Avoidance : A Static Model, with Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, S.Y.T. Lee, Management Science, Vol.54 No 6, 2008.
 
Overcoming Online Information Privacy Concerns : An Information Processing Theory Approach, with Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, S.Y.T. Lee, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 24 No. 2. 13-42, Fall 2007.
 
Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research, Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2, 3-13, 2006.
 
Who Gets Spammed?, with Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, Yee-Lin Lai, S.Y.T Lee, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 49, No. 10, 83-87, October 2006.
Teaching
CS-3261: IT Marketing.
BMU-5003: Economic Analysis for Managers.
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Ivan PNG Paak Liang

Lim Kim San Professor of Business Policy and Professor of Information Systems and Economics
BA (Hons)(Cambridge),
PhD (Stanford).

Tel: (65) 6516-6807
Fax: (65) 6776-7565
E-mail:[ipng@comp.nus.edu.sg]

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