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Brian G. Knight is an economics professor at Brown University, as well as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[1] He received his B.S. from Miami University in 1992, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2000, under the supervision of Arik Levinson.[1][2]

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In 2006, Knight published a study of the 2000 United States presidential election and stock prices of companies expected to prosper under the front-runner's administration. The study found that the more either George W. Bush or Al Gore was expected to win the election, the higher the values of stocks expected to prosper under their presidency were.[3][4] In 2011, he and Chun-Fang Chiang co-authored a study of the effects of newspaper endorsements on voters' probabilities of voting for a candidate. Their results showed that voters, especially moderate voters, were more likely to support a candidate if they were endorsed by a newspaper of a different political ideology than the candidate (a "crossover" endorsement).[5][6] In 2013, he published a study showing that guns used to commit crimes in the United States tend to move from states with weak gun laws to those with strict ones.[7][8][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Knight, Brian". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  2. ^ "Poverty-Related Doctorates, 1971-2012". www.irp.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-10-22. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  3. ^ Knight, Brian (2006-05-01). "Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election". Journal of Public Economics. 90 (4–5): 751–773. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.75.7856. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.06.003. ISSN 0047-2727.
  4. ^ Varian, Hal R. (2004-08-26). "Economic Scene; Need another risk to weigh? In a presidential year, it's red stocks vs. blue stocks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  5. ^ CHIANG, CHUN-FANG; KNIGHT, BRIAN (2011). "Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements". The Review of Economic Studies. 78 (3): 795–820. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.144.6942. doi:10.1093/restud/rdq037. JSTOR 23015831.
  6. ^ Subramanian, Courtney (2016-10-05). "Do newspaper endorsements still matter?". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  7. ^ Knight, Brian (2013). "State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing". American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 5 (4): 200–229. doi:10.1257/pol.5.4.200.
  8. ^ "Economist traces flow of guns in U.S." UPI. 2011-10-24. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  9. ^ Gilman, Azure (2011-10-06). "Why Gun Traffickers Should Live in Arizona - Freakonomics". Freakonomics. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
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