Eric Zitzewitz

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Eric Zitzewitz
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NationalityAmerican
OccupationAcademic
Academic background
Alma materMIT
Academic work
DisciplineFinancial economics
InstitutionsDartmouth
Main interestsAgency problems and incentives
Market-based prediction and forecasting
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Eric Zitzewitz is an associate professor of economics at Dartmouth College. His main interests are agency problems and incentives, particularly in financial and information industries, and in market-based prediction and forecasting. His paper, How Widespread is Late Trading in Mutual Funds? (2003),[1] brought the practice of late trading of international mutual funds to public scrutiny.[2]

Papers

Zitzewitz is a co-author of the 2009 third place Roger F. Murray Prize[3] winning paper, Should benchmark indices have alpha? Revisiting performance evaluation.[4] Zitzewitz is the author/co-author of the following most cited papers involving investments, ranked from most to least cited.

Year Study
2003 Who cares about shareholders? Arbitrage-proofing mutual funds[5]
2010 When should firms share credit with employees? Evidence from anonymously managed mutual funds[6]
2010 How much does size erode mutual fund performance? A regression discontinuity[7]
2006 The rise of anonymous teams in fund management[8]

See also

References

  1. Zitzewitz, Eric (2003). How Widespread is Late Trading in Mutual Funds?. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1817: SSRN.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. Late trading of mutual funds likely costs $400 million annually, expert says, Stanford News Archive, Stanford Report, September 24, 2003
  3. "Roger F. Murray Prize". Qgroup. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  4. Cremers, Martijn; Petajisto, Antti; Zitzewitz, Eric (2009). Should benchmark indices have alpha? Revisiting performance evaluation. EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper: SSRN.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. Zitzewitz, Eric (2003). Who cares about shareholders? Arbitrage-proofing mutual funds. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization: Oxford University Press. pp. 245–280.
  6. Massa, Massimo; Reuter, Jonathan; Zitzewitz, Eric (2010). When should firms share credit with employees? Evidence from anonymously managed mutual funds. Journal of Financial Economics: North-Holland. pp. 400–424.
  7. Reuter, Jonathan; Zitzewitz, Eric (2010). How much does size erode mutual fund performance? A regression discontinuity.
  8. Massa, Massimo; Reuter, Jonathan; Zitzewitz, Eric (2006). The rise of anonymous teams in fund management. INSEAD.

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