Second Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference
When:
April 28, 2017 @ 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
2017-04-28T08:00:00-04:00
2017-04-28T16:30:00-04:00
Where:
Arlington
3351 Fairfax Drive Arlington
Virginia 22201 USA
3351 Fairfax Drive Arlington
Virginia 22201 USA
Contact:
The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School will host a Scholars Conference on the economics of digital information policy on Friday, April 28, 2017. The mission of PEP is to promote the sound application of economic analysis to issues surrounding the digital information economy through original research, policy outreach, and education.
The Scholars Conference will showcase fourteen original law & economics research papers on such topics as:
- James Cooper (Director, PEP) on Measuring Autonomy Losses from the 2012 Google Privacy Policy Changes
- Martina Ferracane (European Centre for Intl Political Economy) on Stricter Regimes of Data Flows
- Mark Flood (US Treasury Office of Financial Research) on Cryptography and the Economics of Supervisory Information
- Jon Klick (U of Pennsylvania Law) on State Data Breaches and Income Tax e-Filing
- Meiping Sun (Columbia) on EMV Technology and Credit Card Fraud
- Jose Tudon (U of Chicago) on an Empirical Investigation on Net Neutrality
The Conference will also feature a luncheon keynote from Ginger Jin, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.
A full list of speakers is available on the PEP website here.