Benjamin Edelman - Selected Publications
Benjamin Edelman - Selected Publications
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Online Advertising and Search
Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search and data appendix. With Zhenyu Lai. (April 2013) Bias in Search Results?: Diagnosis and Response. The Indian Journal of Law and Technology 7 (2011): 16-32.
Online Marketing at Big Skinny, TN, and slide supplements. Harvard Business School Case 911-033. With Scott Kominers. 2011. request courtesy copy Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines. With Duncan S. Gilchrist. Information Economics and Policy 24 (2012).)eBay Partner Network (A), (B), (C), TN, and slide supplement. Harvard Business School Cases 910-008, 910-009, and 910-012. With Ian Larkin. 2009. request courtesy copy Ad Classification at Right Media, TN, and slide supplements. Harvard Business School Case 909-032. 2009. request courtesy copy CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction. (December 2008) Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears - With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud and Delaying Payment to Deter Online Advertising Fraud. (February-March 2008) Google, Inc., Google Inc. (Abridged), and TN. Harvard Business School Cases 910-036, -032 , and -050. 2010. Microsoft adCenter. Harvard Business School Case 908-049. With Peter Coles. 2008. request courtesy copy On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions. With Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz. HBS Working Paper No. 08-056. 2008. Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment: The Case of Sponsored Search Auctions. With Michael Schwarz. (December 2006) Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions. With Michael Ostrovsky. Decision Support Systems, v.43(1), February 2007, pp.192-198.Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords. With Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz. American Economic Review, v. 97(1), March 2007, pp.242-259. Greedy Bidding Strategies for Keyword Auctions. Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2007. With Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz.Electronic Commerce and Consumer Protection
Using Internet Data for Economic Research. Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 2 (spring 2012): 189-206. To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts and To Groupon or Not To Groupon: New Research on Voucher Profitability (with Sonia Jaffe and Scott Kominers). December 2010 - January 2011. Online Restaurant Promotions and TN. Harvard Business School Case 909-034. 2009. request courtesy copy 
Deception in Post-Transaction Marketing Offers. Statement for the Record submitted to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (November 2009) See also Deception in Post-Transaction Marketing (document index). Priced and Unpriced Online Markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives 23, no. 3 (summer 2009): 21-36. Consumer Payment Systems - United States, Consumer Payment Systems - Japan, and TN. Harvard Business School Case 909-006 and 909-007. With Andrei Hagiu. 2008-2009. request courtesy copy (US), (Japan)Competition among Sponsored Search Services. Written testimony submitted to the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws. (June 2008) (hearing cancelled) (reprinted in HBS Working Knowledge)Assessing and Improving the Safety of Internet Search Engines. Published in The Rising Power of Search Engines on the Internet. (2007)Adverse Selection in Online "Trust" Authorities (2006-2009) and Certifications and Site Trustworthiness (September 2006). The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon.com - Introduction & Table of Contents; body available upon request. (September 2001 - March 2002) (summa cum laude)Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers. Economic Inquiry, April 2012: 309-320. (Draft as first circulated in 2004.)The Effect of Geographic Location on Economics Journal Citations - available upon request. (December 2001 - January 2002) Spyware: Research, Testing, Legislation, and Suits (spyware index site). (June 2002 - present)
Intermix Revisited. (November 2006) Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears and Delaying Payment to Deter Online Advertising Fraud. (February - March 2008) Miscellaneous - Consumer Education, Legislation, Litigation, Privacy, Mixed Topics, etc.
Securing Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West. (In Beautiful Security, edited by John Viega.) (September 2008) Spyware and Adware. Written testimony submitted to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Hearing on Impact and Policy Implications of Spyware on Consumers and Businesses. (June 2008.)People of the State of New York v. Direct Revenue, LLC. (April 2006) Threats Against Spyware Detectors, Removers,
and Critics. (March 2005)Expert Declaration in WhenU v. Utah. (May 2004) Expert Declarations
in Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, LLC, et al. v. the Gator
Corporation. (June 2002) Domain Names, ICANN, and Internet Infrastructure
Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses. With Michael Schwarz. (September 2011)Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting, introduction, and web appendix. With Typer Moore. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
6052 (2010).Priced and Unpriced Online Markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives 23, no. 3 (summer 2009): 21-36. Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It. Proceedings of the First Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications. Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. (2009.)Running Out of Numbers? The Impending Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It. (June 2008.)Opening Dot EU (A) and (B). Harvard Business School Cases N9-908-052 and N9-908-053. (2008.) request courtesy copy Intentionally
Invalid Whois Data. Written testimony submitted to the US House of Representatives
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee
on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight
Hearing on Internet Domain Fraud & US Government's Role in Ensuring Public
Access to Accurate Whois Data. (September 2003)Empirical Analysis
of Internet Filtering in China and Real-Time
Testing of Internet Filtering in China. (March - November 2002) With Jonathan Zittrain.Internet
Filtering in China. IEEE
Internet Computing. (March - April 2003) With Jonathan Zittrain. Expert Report
and Appendices for Multnomah County Public Library et al., vs. United
States of America, et al. (challenge to the Children's Internet Protection
Act). (October 2001 - April 2002)Edelman
v. N2H2, Inc. (July 2002)Retransmission and Geographic Restrictions
Expert Memorandum attached
to National Association of Broadcasters submission to Industry Canada (re retransmission
of commercial television content over the Internet). (September 2001)Initial and Supplemental
Expert Declarations in National Football League, et al., v. TVRADIONOW
Corporation (iCraveTV). (January - February 2000)iCravetv.biz/Entervision Retransmits
CNN, Cartoon Network, PAX TV, California NBC Affiliate. (June - July
2002)Transportation and Personal Rapid Transport
Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Inc. and TN. Also available as Harvard Business School Case 910-010. (2009)
Testimony transcripts and additional publications are available upon request. A symbol marks academic publications. marks documents written for or about, or used in, litigation.