nep-neu New Economics Papers
on Neuroeconomics
Issue of 2011‒08‒02
one paper chosen by
Daniel Houser
George Mason University

  1. A Behavioural Analysis of Online Privacy and Security By Baddeley, M.

  1. By: Baddeley, M.
    Abstract: Psychological and sociological factors constrain economic decision-making in many contexts including the online world. Behavioural economics and economic psychology emphasise that people will make mistakes in processing information and in planning for the future; these mistakes will also distort learning processes. Emotions and visceral factors will play a key role - not only aecting people's actions but also distorting the interactions between information, learning and choices. This will have wide-ranging implications for online behavior and information security management, making people more vulnerable to security/privacy abuses including hacking, spam attacks, phishing, identity theft and online financial exploitation. These vulnerabilities raise crucial policy questions - recently made more pressing in the light of recent phone-hacking scandals in the UK. This paper outlines some of the behavioural factors affecting people's online behaviour and analyses real-world reactions to online fraud using evidence from the British Crime Survey 2009-10.
    JEL: D18 D83 K42
    Date: 2011–07–25
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cam:camdae:1147&r=neu

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