Jeffrey Herman Zwiebel (born December 12, 1965) is an American economist and the James C. Van Horne Professor of Finance at the

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. A study he co-authored in 2013, along with Brett Green of the

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, reported that the "

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" did not appear to be a fallacy after all. Specifically, they reported that an average-power batter in

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on a "hot streak" was about as likely to hit a home run as a good-power batter would normally be.

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