Eric W. Zitzewitz
Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics
My areas of expertise include industrial organization and agency issues, particularly in financial and informational industries, and prediction markets. The financial services industry and market-based forecasting are among my current research interests.
Department(s):
Economics
Education:
A.B. Harvard University
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Selected Publications
"Does transparency reduce favoritism and corruption? Evidence from the reform of figure skating judging", Sage Journals vol. 15 no. 1 3-30 (February 2014)
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)
"Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation" Critical Finance Review (with Martijn Cremers & Antti Petajisto, 2013)
"Retail Securities regulation in the aftermath of the bubble" Chapter in NBER book Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned? (2013)
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)