Eric Zitzewitz
Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College
Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research
Fellow
CESifo
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Working Papers
How Much Does Fund Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(with
Jonathan Reuter
)
Incentive Effects of Equity Compensation: Employee-Level Evidence from Google
(with
Bo Cowgill
)
Mood Swings at Work: Stock Price Movements, Effort, and Decision Making
(with
Bo Cowgill
)
Do Gas Prices Vote for the Right? Political Contributions Via Price Distortions
Paired Corporate Bond Trades
Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care
(with
Robin McKnight
and
Jonathan Reuter
)
Publications
Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X
,
Review of Economics Studies
, forthcoming (with
Bo Cowgill
)
Incorporates material from
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google
(with
Bo Cowgill
and
Justin Wolfers
)
Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising?
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
, forthcoming (with
Jonathan Zinman
)
Does Transparency Reduce Favoritism and Corruption? Evidence from the Reform of Figure Skating Judging
,
Journal of Sports Economics
, 2014
Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation
,
Critical Finance Review
, 2013 (with
Antti Petajisto
and
Martijn Cremers
)
Forensic Economics,
Journal of Economic Literature
, 2012
When Should Firms Share Credit With Employees? Evidence from Anonymously Managed Mutual Funds,
Journal of Financial Economics
, 2010 (with
Massimo Massa
and
Jonathan Reuter
)
Prosecutorial Discretion in Mutual Fund Settlement Negotiations, 2003-7
BE Journal of Applied Economics and Policy
, 2009
Using Markets to Inform Policy: The Case of the Iraq War
,
Economica
2009 (with
Justin Wolfers
)
Draws on
What Do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?
(with Andrew Leigh and
Justin Wolfers
)
The Promise of Prediction Markets
,
Science
, 2008 (joint with 18 co-authors)
Party Influence in Congress and the Economy
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
, 2007 (with
Erik Snowberg
and
Justin Wolfers
)
Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
Quarterly Journal of Economics
, 2007 (with
Erik Snowberg
and
Justin Wolfers
)
How Widespread Was Late Trading in Mutual Funds?
American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings
, 2006
Longer
working paper
referred to in the published version
Do Ads Influence Editors? Advertising and Bias in the Financial Media
Quarterly Journal of Economics
, 2006 (with
Jonathan Reuter
)
Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
, 2006
Prediction Markets
Journal of Economic Perspectives
, 2004 (with
Justin Wolfers
)
Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Journal of Development Economics
, 2004 (with
Paul Glewwe
,
Michael Kremer
, and
Sylvie Moulin
)
Who Cares About Shareholders? Arbitrage-proofing Mutual Funds
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
, 2003
Competition and Productivity in the U.S. and UK Tobacco Industry, 1879-1939
Journal of Industrial Economics
, 2003
Extending the East Asian Miracle: Microeconomic Evidence from Korea
Brookings Proceedings on Economic Activity: Microeconomics
, 1998 (with
Martin Baily
)
Book Chapters, Book Reviews and Law Review Articles
"
Retail Securities Regulation in the Aftermath of the Bubble
" in
Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned?
ed Nancy Rose, University of Chicago Press, 2014
"
Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting
" in
Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Vol 2
, ed. Graham Elliott and Allan Timmerman, Elsevier, 2014 (with
Erik Snowberg
and
Justin Wolfers
)
"
How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
" in
Prediction Markets: Theory and Application
, ed. Leighton Williams, Routledge, 2011 (with
Erik Snowberg
and
Justin Wolfers
)
Predicting Crime
Arizona Law Review
, 2010 (with
Todd Henderson
and
Justin Wolfers
)
"A
Review
of '
Predictocracy
,' by Michael Abramowitz,"
Journal of Economic Literature
, 2009
"
Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice
" in
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition
, ed. Lawrence Blume and Steven Durlauf, Palgrave MacMillan (with
Justin Wolfers
)
"Prediction Markets: From Politics to Business (and Back)" in
Handbooks in Finance: Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets
, ed. Donald Hausch and Bill Ziemba, Elsevier, 2008 (with
Erik Snowberg
and
Justin Wolfers
)
"
Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets
" in
Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions in the Public and Private Sectors
, ed. Robert Hahn and Paul Tetlock, AEI-Brookings Press, 2006 (with
Justin Wolfers
)
"
Information (In)efficiency in Prediction Markets
," in
Information Efficiency in Financial and Betting Markets
, ed. Leighton Vaughan Williams, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (with
Erik Snowberg
and
Justin Wolfers
)
"
Service Sector Productivity Comparisons: Lessons for Measurement
," in
New Developments in Productivity Analysis
, ed. Charles Hulten, Edwin Dean, and Michael Harper, University of Chicago Press, 2001 (with
Martin Baily
)
Older Working Papers
Price Discovery Among the Punters: Using New Financial Betting Markets to Predict Intraday Volatility
Another Kind of 'Weekend Effect' in Financial Markets
Regulation Fair Disclosure and the Private Information of Analysts
Measuring Exaggeration and Herding by Equity Analysts
Opinion Producing Agents: Career Concerns and Herding
A Strategic Rationale for Imperfect Disclosure
Popular Writing
How Ski Jumping Gets Olympic Judging Right (and Figure Skating Gets it Wrong)
,
Washington Post (Monkey Cage Blog)
, 2/12/2014
The Folly of Making Political Prediction Markets Like Intrade Illegal
,
Reuters (Great Debate Blog)
, 11/27/2012
Quantifying the Nightmare Scenarios II: Why Have Long-Term Interest Rates Risen?
,
New York Times (Freakonomics Blog)
, 6/15/2009
Quantifying the Nightmare Scenarios
,
New York Times (Freakonomics Blog)
, 3/2/2009
Edwards Dropout Offers Boost to Obama
,
Wall Street Journal
, 1/31/2008 (with
Justin Wolfers
)
Experimental Political Betting Markets and the 2004 Election
, The Economists' Voice, 2004 (with
Justin Wolfers
)
The Furor Over 'Terrorism Futures'
, Washington Post, 7/31/2003 (with
Justin Wolfers
)
Last updated: July 2015