Author Archives: Koleman Strumpf

About Koleman Strumpf

Economics (University of Kansas) - Kansas, U.S.A.

Journal of Predictions Markets: Special Issue on Corporate Applications

The current issue of the JPM focuses on the use of prediction and idea markets within firms. The papers stem from the Conference on Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets held at the Kauffman Foundation on 1 November 2007. The issue … Continue reading

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How much betting will we see?

There is almost always a huge run-up in betting activity on prediction markets right before and during an event (this is equally true for sports as well as elections). In my posting about this over at Betfair’s new blog, I … Continue reading

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The Value of Tom Brady?

New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady suffered a season-ending injury during yesterday’s game with the Kansas City Chiefs. After he left the game and before the extent of the injury was known, the TradeSport’s contract on whether the Pats would … Continue reading

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Arbitrage in the InTrade Dem VP Market

There has been an unexploited arbitrage opportunity in the Intrade Democratic VP market (“2008 Democratic VP Nominee (others upon request)”). As the attachment shows, you can sell the slate of candidates for 123.2 (just sum the bids) while you will … Continue reading

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Prediction Markets in the Classroom: Inkling Markets

hile prediction markets have been in the spotlight this year, they are still unfamiliar to many folks. As one small step towards improving their visibility, along with my colleague James Lemieux I ran a prediction market at the University of … Continue reading

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Slides of presentations from Conference on Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets (1 November), Kansas City

The speakers’ presentations are now available in pdf format on the conference webpage, http://people.ku.edu/~cigar/PMConf_2007. I intend to keep this page in place, so feel free to bookmark it and use it as a resource.

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Summary of Conference on Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets (1 November), Kansas City

A summary of the talks at last week’s conferences is available here, http://people.ku.edu/~cigar/PMConf_2007/PMConference_Notes.html. Additional information will be posted in the near future.

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Reminder: Corporate Applications of Prediction Markets Conference (1 November)

The conference will be held next Thursday (1 November) at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. All of the details are available on the conference webpage (http://people.ku.edu/~cigar/PMConf_2007) and the schedule is listed below. I am pleased to note that Mat … Continue reading

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Conference: Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets (Thursday, 1 November 2007)

I have organized a conference on corporate prediction markets which may be of interest to Midas Oracle readers. It will take place on 1 November at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. All of the details are available on the … Continue reading

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Copernican Principle: How To Predict the End of the World

John Tierney’s column the Science section of today’s New York Times discusses a method for forecasting difficult to predict events. The Copernican Method, advocated by Princeton physicist Richard Gott, allows one to generate confidence intervals that an event will occur … Continue reading

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