Economics of Ransomware: Risk Interdependence and Large-Scale Attacks

The authors thank Kartik Hosanagar (the department editor), the associate editor, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions throughout the review process. The authors also thank the participants at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (2017), INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (2018), Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (2019), and INFORMS Annual Meeting (2019) as well as the participants in research seminars at the University of Calgary, Tulane University, Southern Methodist University, George Mason University, University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Arizona for their helpful discussions and feedback. Special thanks to Stefan Laube for his insightful input on early versions of this work.