题目：Marginal Deterrence in the Enforcement of Law: Evidence from Distributed Denial of Service Attack.

报告人：香港科技大学信息管理教授 Kai-Lung Hui(許佳龍)博士

时间：2013年7月1日（星期一）上午10：00 – 12：00

地点：tyc234cc 太阳成集团313室

报告摘要：By studying a panel dataset of distributed denial of service attack across 240 countries over 5 years, we find that enforcing the Convention on  Cybercrime had increased the intensity of attack by 43 to 52 percent. It did not significantly reduce the chance for a country to be selected for the attacks.  We conducted a battery of identification  and falsification tests to show that such increased attack intensity  arose because of failure in marginal deterrence, instead of other  theories such as brutalization, stigmatization, or defiance, or  general forms of endogeneity.  We show that raising the standard of proof of conviction is one way to facilitate marginal deterrence,  but it has the undesirable effect of raising the offense rate.  We discuss other possible solutions.

教授简介：Kai-Lung Hui is a professor in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  His research interests include information privacy and security, the impact of the media on consumer behavior, and general impacts of information technologies.  His research has been published in scholarly journals including American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of MIS, among others. 

Dr. Hui had provided consulting services to the Ministry of Law of Singapore, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), WKK Distributions Ltd., and the Intellectual Property Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government.  He had also presented as an invited expert speaker in the WIPO/OECD Expert meeting on Counterfeiting and Piracy, which was held in Geneva in 2005. 

Dr. Hui has taught courses in business strategy, electronic commerce, privacy and security management, telecommunications, project management, and technology management, among others.  He obtained his BBA and PhD degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.