Tag Archives: CFO

CFO Prediction Market

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

CFO Prediction Market http://www.cfo.com/cfopredictionmarket/

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Meet the tenured Eric Zitzewitz.

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Eric Zitzewitz = Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College – Greater Boston Area, MA, USA — Eric Zitzewitz (at LinkedIn): Current – Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Past – Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School … Continue reading →

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Why can’t InTrade-TradeSports make a dent in the lucrative corporate market?

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

CFO magazine, last year: Currently, in fact, Trade Exchange Network [=InTrade-TradeSports] is discussing a pilot project with a large electronic retailer to enable the rank and file to wager on the wisdom of finance chiefs, says Knesevitch, who declined to … Continue reading →

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PREDICTION MARKETS: Airbus A380 vs. Boeing 787

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Fortune: QUESTION: Airbus has bet on big airplanes — the A-380 can seat 550 passengers. Boeing has bet on efficient airplanes. What makes you confident that you’re right? BOEING CFO: It’s not just efficient airplanes. We’re also looking at smaller … Continue reading →

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Prediction markets will soon drive tectonic shifts for almost every corporate officer, including the CFO, CIO, CMO, CSO, and the heads of Logistics, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Sales.

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Wow! Prediction markets enable departments to get the best possible estimates of important, uncertain variables. Consequently, prediction markets can provide valuable answers to the following sorts of questions: CFO – What are our greatest compliance risks? CIO – Which major … Continue reading →

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Prediction Markets for Financial Planning and Analysis

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

One CFO is more than happy with prediction markets, it seems. Same question as 5 minutes ago: How come I am the last to know this??

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Midas Oracle ranks #35

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

… at Google Search for the phrase “prediction markets”. (Not bad for a group blog that is three months old. Midas Oracle will slowly get to the first page of results, just like CFM. It took a while for CFM … Continue reading →

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Prediction Market Event Studies

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Chris F. Masse

Prediction Markets for the CFO – (PDF) – by Eric Zitzewitz – 2006-12-13 Prediction Market Event Studies • Advantages: – Can measure pre-event probability – No guessing about event window length – Can control for other news released with event … Continue reading →

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Prediction Markets for the CFO

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Eric Zitzewitz

Here is the presentation I am about to give at the Yahoo confab. In my 10 minutes, I’m going to describe some recent work with Erik Snowberg and Justin Wolfers on financial market responses to the 2004 and 2006 elections. … Continue reading →

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