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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Does TradeSports-InTrade “duplicate” the Iowa Electronic Markets’s political contracts?
The Iowa Electronic Market: Lessons Learned and Answers Yearned – (PDF) – by Joyce E. Berg and Thomas A. Rietz – 2005-01-00 In page 2, the authors treat TradeSports as “an online betting operation that has incorporated IEM-like contracts on … Continue reading
Google to commoditize prediction market software? (Or Yahoo!. Or MicroSoft.)
That’s Professor Ely Dahan’s educated guess (or suggestion?) at the end of his Google TechTalks presentation (the last 5 minutes). How can we better understand customers? – (Video) – (via George Tziralis) – [STOC] – by Ely Dahan – 2006-07-18 … Continue reading
Posted in Software
Tagged Alex Kirtland, Ely Dahan, Google, Microsoft, Prediction Market Software, Professor, Richard McLister, See
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HedgeStreet: If the Dems takes both the US House and the US Senate, stock markets will go South.
From the HedgeStreet e-mail newsletter: The GDP growth slowed to 1.6% in Q3 2006. Home sales are down 20%, median prices declined again. The Fed should have raised rates a year earlier. Once the inflation hydra was out of the … Continue reading
Chinese Markets
In its October 25, 2006 press release, Cambridge-based consultancy Market Platform Dynamics says it has the “only China-based prediction market capability.” They actually seem to be referring to a survey. Their website gives no evidence of a price mechanism. MPD’s … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Forecasting (Science & Practice)
Tagged Cambridge, China
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MatchBook’s user-created prediction markets – 6 years after Flutter. – Inkling not the only one.
Here’s from MatchBook (a real-money prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange, which has volumes on American Football, betting market expert Niall O’Connor tells me): X Bets X Bets are events that customers request for betting among themselves. They can only be … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets
Tagged investment group, Ireland, MATCHBOOK, Niall O'Connor, peer-to-peer, Player, prediction markets, sports bettor
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David Pennock: Inkling Markets has a better interface than the Washington Stock Exchange.
Implementing Hanson’s Market Maker – [Robin Hanson's Market Scoring Rules & Automated market maker | How to implement Robin Hanson's the logarithmic market scoring rule market maker] – by David Pennock – 2006-10-30 LMSR is now being used in several … Continue reading
Prediction markets-friend Mike Linksvayer featured in the New York Times…
… for all the wrong reasons: his diet. The topic of this New York Times article is “calorie restriction”. Thus, prediction markets-friend Mike Linksvayer wasn’t able to make a plug for the Foresight Exchange, or for any other prediction exchange(s). … Continue reading →