Prediction markets
Subtitle: theory and applications
By: edited by Leighton Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780415572866; 9780203815526
Subjects: Forecasting; Economic forecasting; Business forecasting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Idea markets as an evaluation tool : between beauty contests and prediction markets / Marco Ottaviani; title: How prediction markets can save event studies / Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz; title: Mechanisms for prediction markets / Yiling Chen; title: Information markets for decision making : performance and feasibility / Karen Croxson; title: Using prediction markets in new product development / Bernd Skiera and Martin Spann; title: Prediction market accuracy for business forecasting / Andreas Graefe; title: Price biases and contract design : lessons from tradesports / Richard Borghesi; title: The predictive ability of financial markets / Les Coleman; title: Markets' ability to predict conditional probabilities : evidence from the us presidential campaign / Lionel Page; title: Prediction markets : a study on the taiwan experience / Shu-Heng Chen et al; title: Uses of sports wagering-based prediction markets outside of the world of gambling / Rodney J. Paul and Andrew P. Weinbach; title: Experimental prediction and pari-mutuel betting markets / Charles Noussair; title: The economic analysis of sports betting by expert gamblers and insiders : a survey / John Peirson; title: The case of football betting reviewed/ johnnie johnson and a. oikonomodis; title: The prediction market for the australian football league / Adi Schnytzer; title: Do experts know more than the crowd : a case study / Michael Smith.