- “The Turn-of-the-Year Effect,” pp. 705-706 in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, London: MacMillan, 1992.
- “Going Public,” Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Jay R. Ritter, pp. 248-255 in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, London: MacMillan,1992.
- “Racetrack Betting–An Example of a Market with Efficient Arbitrage,” pp. 431-441 in Efficiency of Racetrack Betting, edited by D. B. Hausch, Victor S. Y. Lo, and W. T. Ziemba, San Diego:Academic Press, 1994.
- “Initial Public Offerings,” Roger G. Ibbotson and Jay R. Ritter, Chapter 30 (pp. 993-1016) in Handbooks of Operations Research and Management Science: Finance edited by R. Jarrow, V. Maksimovic, and W. Ziemba, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1995.
- “Initial Public Offerings,” in Warren, Gorham, and Lamont Handbook of Modern Finance edited by Dennis Logue and James Seward, Boston and New York: WGL/RIA 1998.
- Reprinted (with modifications) in Vol. 2, Contemporary Finance Digest, (Spring 1998) No. 1, pp. 5-30.
- “Investing Rules on IPOs” in The Book of Investing Rules edited by Stephen Eckett, London: Global Investor, 2001.
- “The Future of the New Issues Market,” Published as pp. 293-308 of Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services 2002.
- “Investment Banking and Securities Issuance,” Chapter 5 (pp. 255-306) of Handbook of the Economics of Finance edited by George Constantinides, Milton Harris, and René Stulz, Amsterdam: North-Holland, (2003).
- “Introduction to Recent Developments in Corporate Finance,” May 2005, RitterFlyer.pdf
- “Post-IPO Employment and Revenue Growth for U.S. IPOs, June 1996-2010,” with Martin Kenney and Donald Patton, Kauffman Foundation Report, May 2012.
- “Re-energizing the IPO Market,” Chapter 4, pp. 123-145, in Restructuring to Speed Economic Recovery edited by Martin Neil Bailey, Richard J. Herring, and Yuta Seki, Brookings Press, 2013.
- Reprinted in the Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2014, pp. 37-48.
- “Economies of Scope and IPO Activity in Europe,” Jay Ritter, Andrea Signori, and Silvio Vismara, Chapter 1 (pp. 11-34) in Handbook of Research on IPOs, edited by Mario Levis and Silvio Vismara, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
- “Going Public with IPOs and SPAC Mergers” in Research Handbook of the Structure of Private Equity and Venture Capital edited by Brian Broughman and Elisabeth de Fontenay, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.