System Reliability and Free Riding
By Hal R. Varian. Economics of Information Security, 2004
401 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Tyler W. Moore
- Dawn Song
- Ross J. Anderson
- Richard Clayton
- Cormac Herley
- Jens Grossklags
- Peter L. Bartlett
- John Chung-I Chuang
In Safety Research
- Tyler W. Moore
- Dawn Song
- Ross J. Anderson
- Richard Clayton
- Cormac Herley
- Jens Grossklags
- Peter L. Bartlett
- John Chung-I Chuang
Citations in the corpus
- The Economics of Information Security (2006, background): “results when players choose their eort levels independently [ 7 ].”
- Income, interdependence, and substitution effects affecting incentives for security investment (2006, background): “The free-rider dilemma is further analyzed by Anderson (2001) with respect to security investments, Varian (2002) related to system reliability, and Hausken (2002) regarding how agents incur costs in various games to ensure system reliability.”
- Secure or insure?: a game-theoretic analysis of information security games (2008, methodology): “Our work generalizes [43] in several aspects.”
- A Learning-Based Approach to Reactive Security (2009, background): “Varian [26] studies various (single-shot) security games and identifies how much agents invest in security at equilibrium.”
- Key infection: smart trust for smart dust (2004, background): “If these favor the defender, the attacker will give up; otherwise there will be an equilibrium at which the defender has to go all out [7, 18].”
- Examining the impact of website take-down on phishing (2007, background): “some of the banks targeted by rock-phish sites are not cooperating at all, but are instead free-riding on the efforts of a few more capable organisations [20].”
- The Plight of the Targeted Attacker in a World of Scale (2010, background): “Varian suggests that many systems are structured so that overall security depends on the weakest link [22].”
- Sharing Information on Computer Systems Security: An Economic Analysis (2003, background): “Varian (2002) provides a formal model in which the free rider problem is analyzed in the context of providing system reliability.”