I quantify the heterogeneous network effects and price elasticities in consumers’ Electric Vehicles (EV) purchases. I consider both direct network effects from social influences and indirect effects from charging stations. Given the estimated effects, I design targeted pricing policies for the...

We develop an analytically tractable method to estimate the fraction of unreported infections in epidemics with a known epicenter and estimate the number of unreported COVID-19 infections in the U.S. during the first half of March 2020. Our method utilizes the covariation in initial reported...

Conventional wisdom suggests that copyright piracy may in effect reduce the deadweight loss resulting from copyright protection because it allows the public unlimited access to information goods at a price closer to marginal cost. It has been further contended that lower copyright protection...

An interesting yet less explored aspect of the eBay decision, in which the Supreme Court upheld the four-factor test under traditional principles of equity in the patent injunction context, is that the decision referred to what it characterized as long-term practice in copyright law to support...

Zheng Chengsi v. Shusheng Digital Technology Co Ltd (the “Shusheng case”) is fated to become a landmark case in the copyright history of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC” or “China”). Even when the Shusheng case was just decided by the court of first instance and still pending...

This article aims to examine empirical evidence on how the Chinese music industry has adapted and developed in the shadow of rampant copyright piracy. Based on the analysis of public statistics, industrial data and existing market surveys from various secondary sources, this article suggests...

Universal City Studios v. Sony Corporation of America (the “Sony case”) is well recognized by the copyright bar as a landmark of indirect copyright liability. While copyright holders cried doom for the advent of a new communications technology, namely Betamax Video Tape Recorder (“VTR”),...

Copyright law is widely perceived as the means to promote social welfare by providing necessary incentive for intellectual creation. However, there has been little clarity in copyright literature on how artists actually respond to copyright incentives: What factors motivate artists to create...

This article presents an empirical study based on all reported transformative use decisions in U.S. copyright history through January 1, 2017. Since Judge Leval coined the doctrine of transformative use in 1990, it has been gradually approaching total dominance in fair use jurisprudence,...