Tag Archives: American Economic Association

Information Sharing at Google via Enterprise Prediction Markets

Zubin Jelveh (the blogging colleague of Felix Salmon at Portfolio magazine): [...] One of the biggest findings was that an employee’s trading performance was most strongly correlated with the trading results of the other Googlers around him (or her). Friends … Continue reading

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Academics to discuss prediction market experience

According to the preliminary schedule of the 2008 American Economic Association annual meetings, some leading prediction market scholars will be gathering to discuss empirical data from prediction markets. The meetings will be held in New Orleans in early January [2008]. … Continue reading

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This site offers a variety of material for those interested in prediction markets (markets where participants trade instruments whose price reflects the probability of future events). While somewhat opinionated, many will likely find it useful for its breadth of coverage.

The American Economic Association’s directory on CFM

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American Economic Association – Annual Meeting

American Economic Association – Annual Meeting – @ Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. – 2007-01-05~07 Via Lance Fortnow, who blogs on annual conferences, and how it does good to an entire field. Technical Note: See, I’m typing this in Word Press, and … Continue reading

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“Here is a bombastic, arrogant and, sadly, hilarious entry from M. Masse in his not-so-modest Midas Oracle (?).”

… Dixit my competitor, on his crappy e-mailing list. (He was speaking about one of my MIT CCI blog posts.) I’ve just seen that, today, browsing the Web. What is hilarious, actually, is that he wrote that entry on November … Continue reading

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