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Richard J. Zeckhauser

Richard J. Zeckhauser

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Economics and Finance
USA
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
92
Citations
61676
World Ranking
158
National Ranking
114

Richard J. Zeckhauser publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard J. Zeckhauser sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 449 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Richard J. Zeckhauser D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard J. Zeckhauser sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 92 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)

Overview

Richard J. Zeckhauser is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their work spans key areas in economics, econometrics, finance, business, management, and accounting. The research primarily focuses on topics such as corporate taxation and avoidance, taxation and legal issues, taxation and compliance studies, game theory and voting systems, decision-making and behavioral economics, climate change and health impacts, and healthcare policy and management.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections (2021) in The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
  • Owning, Using, and Renting: Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy" (2020) in Management Science
  • When Managers Change Their Tone, Analysts and Investors Change Their Tune (2020) in Financial Analysts Journal
  • Three prongs for prudent climate policy (2020) in Southern Economic Journal
  • Strategic sorting: the role of ordeals in health care (2020) in Economics and Philosophy

Their frequent co-authors include Karen Eggleston, John D. Donahue, Alexander F. Wagner, Alexandre Ziegler, and Jamie Tucker-Foltz.

Zeckhauser has contributed extensively to various publication venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (10 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
  • Management Science (2 publications)
  • The Review of Corporate Finance Studies (1 publication)
  • Financial Analysts Journal (1 publication)

The scholar has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including "Risks in Renaissance Art" (2024) and "The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector" (2021).

Their main fields of study are Economics, Econometrics and Finance with 22 publications, and Business, Management and Accounting with 15 publications. Subfields include Economics and Econometrics (19 publications), Accounting (8 publications), Political Science and International Relations (8 publications), Strategy and Management (5 publications), and Finance (3 publications).

Recognition for their work includes several awards:

  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2014)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (1999)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society (1989)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)

Best Publications

  • Status quo bias in decision making

    William F. Samuelson;Richard J. Zeckhauser

  • Earnings Management to Exceed Thresholds

    Francois Degeorge;Jayendu Patel;Richard Zeckhauser

  • The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market

    John Joseph Horton;David Gertler Rand;Richard Jay Zeckhauser

  • Reputation systems

    Paul Resnick;Ko Kuwabara;Richard Zeckhauser;Eric Friedman

  • Trust among strangers in internet transactions: Empirical analysis of eBay' s reputation system

    Paul Resnick;Richard Zeckhauser

  • An economic theory of alliances

    Mancur Olson;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Hot Hands in Mutual Funds: Short‐Run Persistence of Relative Performance, 1974–1988

    Darryll Hendricks;Jayendu Patel;Richard Zeckhauser

  • The value of reputation on eBay: A controlled experiment

    Paul Resnick;Richard Zeckhauser;John Swanson;Kate Lockwood

  • Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business

    John W. Pratt;Richard Zeckhauser

  • A primer for policy analysis

    Edith. Stokey;Richard. Zeckhauser

  • The Anatomy of Health Insurance

    David M. Cutler;Richard J. Zeckhauser

  • Assessing Dynamic Efficiency: Theory and Evidence

    Andrew B. Abel;N. Gregory Mankiw;Lawrence H. Summers;Richard J. Zeckhauser

  • Trust, risk and betrayal

    Iris Bohnet;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Medical insurance: A case study of the tradeoff between risk spreading and appropriate incentives☆

    Richard Zeckhauser

  • Insurance, Information, and Individual Action

    A. Spence;Richard Zeckhauser

  • The Efficient Allocation of Individuals to Positions

    Aanund Hylland;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Estimating the Returns to Insider Trading: A Performance-Evaluation Perspective

    Leslie A. Jeng;Andrew Metrick;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States

    Iris Bohnet;Fiona Greig;Benedikt Herrmann;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Proper risk aversion

    John W. Pratt;Richard J. Zeckhauser

  • Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method

    Nolan Miller;Paul Resnick;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Insurance, Information, and Individual Action

    Michael Spence;Richard Zeckhauser

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Kip Viscusi
W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University
Alexander F. Wagner
Alexander F. Wagner University of Zurich
David M. Cutler
David M. Cutler Harvard University
Karen Eggleston
Karen Eggleston Stanford University
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Erzo F. P. Luttmer Dartmouth College
Andrew Metrick
Andrew Metrick Yale University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Paul Resnick
Paul Resnick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University
Jennifer S. Lerner
Jennifer S. Lerner Harvard University

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