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VIDEO — Bo Cowgill on Google’s enterprise prediction markets — O’Reilly Money:Tech

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 Blip.TV – I already published this video. The reason I do it again … Continue reading →

Bo Cowgill’s boss = Hal Varian

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

UPDATE: Bo tells us: “Actually, thatâ€™s my desk right behind him, in the top picture.” – - – Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, … Continue reading →

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Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google — VIDEO — Bo Cowgill on Google’s enterprise prediction markets — O’Reilly Money:Tech

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 – Via Daniel Horowitz (Business and Technology Consultant) Blip.TV — (FLV file) – … Continue reading →

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A highly accurate prediction market has little value if other mechanisms can provide similar accuracy at a lower cost, or if few substantial decisions are influenced by accurate forecasts on its topic.

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Robin Hanson – Overcoming Bias – - Robin Hanson at LinkedIn – Robin Hanson: Info Value = the added accuracy the markets provide relative to other mechanisms, times the value that accuracy can give in improved decisions, minus the cost … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Meta), Explainers, Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged accuracy, advanced researcher, Bo Cowgill, business value, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, Eric Zitwewitz, Google, info value, internal prediction markets, Justin Wolfers, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Robin Hanson, value applications | 2 Comments

Google’s Bo Cowgill takes a swipe at the prediction market software vendors.

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 – Bo Cowgill: [...] Trade-by-trade data can reveal characteristics of specific working … Continue reading →

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Do Google’s enterprise prediction markets work? — Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06 – VIDEO — Bo Cowgill on Google’s enterprise prediction markets — O’Reilly Money:Tech … Continue reading →

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Google’s Bo Cowgill @ 2008 DIG Conference

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

2008 DIG Conference: Leveraging Information for Breakthrough Business Performance – (featuring Google’s Bo “Grandizer” Cowgill) – @ Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. – 2008-05-13~15 – - RELATED NOTE: I’m preparing a long post about the Cowgill/Wolfers/Zitzewitz paper… If you have positive … Continue reading →

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