Alessandro Acquisti

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

66h-index27.7kcitations273works1.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Privacy, Security, and Data Protection(145), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data(40), Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing(31), Spam and Phishing Detection(24), Technology Adoption and User Behaviour(21)

Publications273 total

Does Privacy Regulation Harm Content Providers? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of the GDPR
Management Science·2025· 4 cited
An Experimental Infrastructure to Investigate the Impact of Online Tracking, Targeting, and Advertising on Consumer Behavior and Consumer Welfare
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2025
An Experimental Infrastructure to Investigate the Impact of Online Tracking, Targeting, and Advertising on Consumer Behavior and Consumer Welfare
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2025
Economics of Privacy and Personal Data
2025
Encouraging Users to Change Breached Passwords Using the Protection Motivation Theory
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Nudging Users to Change Breached Passwords Using the Protection Motivation Theory
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Are There Economic Grounds for Regulating Behavioral Ads? <br>
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
The Economics of Privacy at a Crossroads <br>
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Adoption of 'Privacy-Preserving' Analytics: Drivers, Designs, & Decoupling
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Online Intermediation in Legacy Industries: Evidence from the Adoption of Restaurant Reservation Platforms
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
<div> Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: <span>An Empirical Investigation</span></div>
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
Trends in Privacy Dialog Design after the GDPR: The Impact of Industry and Government Actions
2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Keynote
2023Open Access
Learning to Live with Privacy-Preserving Analytics
Communications of the ACM·2023· 2 cited
Response to comment on “Policy impacts of statistical uncertainty and privacy”
Science·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Nudges (and Deceptive Patterns) for Privacy
2023· 4 cited
An empirical analysis of sentencing of “Access to Information” computer crimes
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies·2023Open Access
Using WTA methodologies to estimate the acceptability of online advertising
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
Using WTA methodologies to estimate the acceptability of online advertising
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
Using WTA methodologies to estimate the acceptability of online advertising
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
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Frequent Co-authors

Lorrie Faith Cranor(14), George Loewenstein(7), Laura Brandimarte(6), Ralph Gross(6), Norman Sadeh(6), Ponnurangam Kumaraguru(5), Jason Hong(5), Idris Adjerid(5), Pedro Giovanni Leon(4), Florian Schaub(4), Eyal Peer(3), Jens Großklags(3), Leslie K. John(3), Steve Sheng(3), Yan Wang(3), Rahul Telang(3), Julia Lane(3), Janice Tsai(2), Serge Egelman(2), Elizabeth Nunge(2)