Empirical evidence that connects firm investment in cybersecurity defenses to the likelihood of being attacked has been very hard to come by. The Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) recently surveyed Israeli firms about their ICT operations...

In this paper, we first provide background on the "nuts and bolts" of a bug bounty platform a two-sided marketplace that connects firms and individual security researchers ("ethical" hackers) to find and be rewarded for discovering software vulnerabilities. We then empirically examine the effect...

A methodology is developed and applied to compare the performance of publicly funded agencies providing treatment for alcohol abuse in Maine. The methodology estimates a Wiener process that determines the duration of completed treatments, while allowing for agency differences in the...

When current employers rave more information about worker quality than to potential employers, sectoral shocks cause structural unemployment. That is, some workers laid off from an injured sector remain unemployed despite the fact that trey are of sufficient quality to be productively employed...

A website monetizes information it collects about its customers by charging third parties for targeted access to them. Allowing for third parties who are well-intentioned, a nuisance, or even malicious, the resulting consumer experiences might be good, bad, or neutral. As consumers learn from...