Koleman Strumpf

Koleman Strumpf is the Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy at Wake Forest University. His research spans industrial organization, public economics, and prediction markets, with innovative studies on file sharing's economic impacts and illegal sports betting operations. Strumpf earned his PhD from MIT after undergraduate studies at Stanford.

Research areas include:

• Intellectual property and digital media economics
• Organization and pricing in illegal markets
• Prediction market accuracy and manipulation
• Historical political stock markets
• Addictive goods taxation

His teaching incorporates experimental pedagogy using simulated prediction markets to demonstrate forecasting principles.