Ivan Png

Opinion Managerial Economics Economic Analysis Associates LLP  
       

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Recent working papers

"Consumer Heterogeneity, Privacy, and Personalization: Evidence from the Do-Not-Call Registry", October 2009 [with Khim-Yong Goh and Kai-lung Hui] Tables

"Copyright Law and the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies", April 2009 [with Qiu-hong Wang]

"Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Cross-Country Evidence", September 2009, Figures and Tables

"On the Reliability of Software Piracy Statistics", September 2008, Tables

"Do institutions not matter in China? Evidence from enterprise-level productivity growth", May 2008 [with Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao]

"Buyer Uncertainty and Two-Part Pricing: Theory and Applications", Revised, October 2009 [with Hao Wang] Appendix


Journal Papers 

1.  "Strategic Behavior in Suit, Settlement and Trial", Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 14 No. 2, Autumn 1983, 539-550.  Reprinted in David K. Levine and Steven A. Lippman, Eds., The Economics of Information, Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1995; Eric B. Rasmusen, Ed., Game Theory and the Law, Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2007.

2. "Optimal Subsidies and Damages in the Presence of Judicial Error", International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 6 No. 1, June 1986, 101-105.

3. "Price Discrimination Through Offers to Match Price", Journal of Business, Vol. 60 No. 3, July 1987, 365-384 [with D. Hirshleifer].

4. "Litigation, Liability, and Incentives for Care", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 34 No. 1, October 1987, 61-85.

5. "Gender, Ethnicity, and Grades: Empirical Evidence of Discrimination in Law-Firm Interviews", Law and Inequality Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2, March 1989, 189-214 [with D. Eaves and J.M. Ramseyer].

6. "Optimal Auditing, Insurance and Redistribution", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 104 No. 2, May 1989, 399-415 [with D. Mookherjee].

7. "Reservations: Customer Insurance in the Marketing of Capacity", Marketing Science, Vol. 8 No. 3, Summer 1989, 248-264.

8. "Efficient Deterrence and the Tax Treatment of Monetary Sanctions", International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 9 No. 2, December 1989, 209-217 [with E. Zolt].

9. "Facilitation of Competing Bids and the Price of a Takeover Target", Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 2 No. 4, 1989, 587-606 [with D. Hirshleifer].

10. "The Role of Instalment Payments in Contracts for Services", RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 21 No. 1, Spring 1990, 83-99 [with T.K. Lee].

11. "Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Progressivity of Income Taxes", Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 6 No. 2, Fall 1990, 411-431 [with D. Mookherjee].

12. "Most-Favoured Customer Protection versus Price Discrimination Over Time", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 99 No. 5, October 1991, 1010-1028.

13. "Market Segmentation, Cannibalization, and the Timing of Product Introductions", Management Science, Vol. 38 No. 3, March 1992, 345-359 [with S. Moorthy].

14. "Monitoring vis-a-vis Investigation in Enforcement of Law", American Economic Review, Vol. 82 No. 3, June 1992, 556-565 [with D. Mookherjee].

15. "Private Security: Deterrent or Diversion?" International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 14 No. 1, March 1994, 87-101 [with Hui-wen Koo].

16. "Marginal Deterrence in Enforcement of Law", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 102 No. 5, October 1994, 1039-1066 [with D. Mookherjee].

17. "Service Time Competition", RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 25 No. 4, Winter 1994, 619-634 [with D. Reitman].

18. "Corruptible Law Enforcers: How Should They Be Compensated?" Economic Journal, Vol. 105 No. 428, January 1995, 145-159 [with D. Mookherjee].  Reprinted in Gianluca Fiorentini and Stefano Zamagni, Eds., The Economics of Corruption and Illegal Markets, Vol II, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1999.   Reprinted in Ajit Mishra, Ed., The Economics of Corruption, New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2005.

19. "Why Are Some Products Branded And Others Not?" Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 38 No. 1, April 1995, 207-224 [with D. Reitman].   Reprinted in Ruth Towse and Rudi Holzhauer, Eds., The Economics Intellectual Property, Vol III, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002.

20. "Returns Policies: Make Money by Making Good", Sloan Management Review, Vol. 37 No. 1, Fall 1995, 65-72 [with V. Padmanabhan].

21. "Manufacturers Returns Policies and Retail Price Competition", Marketing Science, Vol. 16 No. 1, 1997, 81-94 [with V. Padmanabhan].

22. "Damage Measures for Inadvertant Breach of Contract", International Review of Law and Economics,  Vol. 19 No. 3, 1999, 319-331 [with L.A. Bebchuk].

23. "National Culture and Corporate Adoption of Information Technology", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 48 No. 1, February 2001, 36-45 [with Bernard C.Y. Tan and K.L. Wee]

24. "Information Goods Pricing and Copyright Enforcement: Welfare Analysis", Information Systems Research, Vol. 14 No. 1, March 2003, 107-123 [with Yeh-ning Chen].

25."Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment", Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 3 No. 3, July 2003, 261-274 [with Chu-Chia S. Lin].   Data set.

26. "Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music”, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2003, Article 11 [with Kai-Lung Hui].

27. "Buyer Switching Costs and Retail Pricing: An Indirect Empirical Test", Review of Marketing Science, Vol. 2, 2004, Article 6 [with Tom S. Lee].

28. "Reply: Do Returns Policies Intensify Retail Competition?", Marketing Science, Vol. 23 No. 4, Fall 2004, 614-618 [with V. Padmanabhan].

29. "Who Gets Spammed?", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 49, No. 10, October 2006, 83-87 [with Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, Yee-Lin Lai, and S.Y.T. Lee].

30. "Analyzing Online Information Privacy Concerns: An Information Processing Theory Approach", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 24 No. 2, Fall 2007, 13-42 [with Il Horn Hann, Kai-lung Hui, and Sang-Yong T. Lee]. Data set.

31. "Consumer Privacy and Marketing Avoidance: A Static Model", Management Science, Vol. 54 No. 6, June 2008, 1094-1103 [with Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, and Sang-Yong T. Lee]. Appendix.

32. "The Deterrent and Displacement Effects of Information Security Enforcement: International Evidence", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 25 No. 2, Fall 2008, 125-144 [with Chen-yu Wang and Qiu-hong Wang]. Data set.

33. "Information Security: Facilitating User Precautions Vis-a-Vis Enforcement Against Attackers", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 26 No. 2, Fall 2009, 97-122 [with Qiu-hong Wang].


Conference Papers
1. "Software Pricing and Copyright Enforcement: Private Profit vis-a-vis Social Welfare", Proceedings, 20th International Conference on Information Systems, 1999, 119-123 [with Y.N. Chen].

2. "On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies", American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 92 No. 2, May 2002, 217-220 [with Kai-Lung Hui].

3. "Online Information Privacy: Measuring the Cost-Benefit Trade-off", Proceedings, 23rd International Conference on Information Systems, 2002 [with Il-Horn Hann, Kai Lung Hui, and Tom S. Lee].

4. "Analyzing Online Information Privacy Concerns: An Information Processing Theory Approach", Proceedings, 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2007 [with Il-Horn Hann, Kai Lung Hui, and S.Y.T. Lee].

5. "The Deterrent and Displacement Effects of Information Security Enforcement: International Evidence", Proceedings, 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2008 [with Chen-yu Wang and Qiu-hong Wang].

6. "Information Security: User Precautions, Attacker Efforts, and Enforcement", Proceedings, 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009 [with Qiu-hong Wang].

7. "On the Reliability of Software Piracy Statistics", Proceedings, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010.


Other papers
1. "Economics of Privacy", in Terrence Hendershott, Ed., Handbooks in Information Systems, Vol. 1, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, 471-497 [with Kai-Lung Hui].

2. "Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research", Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2006, 3-13. Reprinted in Ruth Towse and Richard Watt, Eds., Recent Trends in the Economics of Copyright, Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, July 2008.

3. "Parallel Imports and Music CD Prices", Korean Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 5 No. 1, June 2008, 197-205 [with Yeh-ning Chen].