Eric Zitzewitz

Education

• Ph.D. MIT (1997.09 — 2001.06)
• BA Harvard College (1989.09 — 1993.06)

Companies

• Professor of Economics Dartmouth College (2007)
• Visiting Scientist Google (2008 — 2008)
• Assistant Professor of Economics Stanford Graduate School of Business (2001 — 2007)
• Business Analyst McKinsey & Co. (1993 — 1997)

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)

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• 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)
• Do Gas Prices Vote for the Right? Political Contributions Via Price Distortions
• Paired Corporate Bond Trades