Zitzewitz

Economists Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz, skiers who took offense to a fluffed-up claim, studied snow reports from 2004 to 2008 and compared them to area government weather stations.

Report: Ski resorts exaggerate snowfall totals 2010

The so-called "weekend effects" in snow reporting were larger for resorts with more expert terrain and within closer driving distance to populated areas, Zinman and Zitzewitz said.

Report: Ski resorts exaggerate snowfall totals 2010

"We got there, and there was like 2," Zitzewitz said.

Report: Ski resorts exaggerate snowfall totals 2010

Google has been running internal prediction markets for a couple of years, and Eric Zitzewitz and I were fortunate enough to team up with Google whiz Bo Cowgill to analyze these markets.

Prediction Markets at Google: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

For the past few years, Eric Zitzewitz and I have organized sessions around prediction markets (a recurrent theme on this blog).

Prediction Markets in New Orleans: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

In these cases, the evidence was uniformly strong, and by measuring this “dilution,” Zitzewitz can measure how egregious the misconduct by these firms was.

Is Virtue What We Buy or What We Sell? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

An insightful new contribution to the emerging “forensic economics” literature by my frequent co-author Eric Zitzewitz makes the case that Spitzer is extraordinary because of the high price he placed on his integrity.

Is Virtue What We Buy or What We Sell? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Let me say that Zitzewitz and I are working with Cowgill, the Google whiz who set up an amazing set of prediction markets within Google.

Prediction Markets in New Orleans: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Google has been running internal prediction markets for a couple of years, and Eric Zitzewitz and I were fortunate enough to team up with Google whiz Bo Cowgill to analyze these markets.

Prediction Markets at Google: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Zitzewitz also obtains similar results when he uses two useful instrumental variables for whether the New York attorney general will be involved: whether a firm is headquartered in New York, and the percentage of its investors who are residents.

Is Virtue What We Buy or What We Sell? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008