This paper proposes a research methodology to studying the differential value that individuals place on their own personal information with reference to data protection, security, and markets for privacy. Gopal et al. [2006] shows that there is a technological solution, the CVC-STAR approach, for the differential protection of numerical data in a market for personal information. Differential pr...

This paper is an empirical study on the estimation of Grossman and Lai’s (2004) gametheoretic model of international patent protection. The model yields clear predictions of the variation in degrees of patent protection across countries based on the market sizes and levels of innovative capability of the countries, and interdependence of the degrees of patent protection between countries. To es...

This research is sponsored in part by the USAF, Air Force Materiel Command, under contract F30602-97-1-0252, "MarketNet: A Survivable, Market-based Architecture for Large-scale Information Systems", and in part by the New York Science and Technology Foundation, subcontract with Polytechnic University. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not b...