How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

No 16949, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions from the economic effects of party control of government to the importance of complex rules in congressional committees. However, the results of event studies are notoriously sensitive to both choices made by researchers and external events. Specifically, event studies will generally produce different results depending on three interrelated things: which event window is chosen, the prior probability assigned to an event at the beginning of the event window, and the presence or absence of other events during the event window. In this paper we show how each of these may bias the results of event studies, and how prediction markets can mitigate these biases.

JEL-codes: A2 C5 D72 G14 H50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04
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Published as How Prediction Markets can Save Event Studies (with Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz) Prediction Markets, Leighton Vaughn Williams, Editor. Routledge, 2011.

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