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Enterprise Prediction Markets = The wisdom of crowds comes to the enterprise.

Here are short excerpts of the Forrester report on enterprise prediction markets and companies that provide software for enterprise prediction markets. – The Forrester executive summary: The “wisdom of crowds” is capturing the attention of corporate strategists across the globe, … Continue reading

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The best researchers on prediction markets

CFM: Scholars Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.) – Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington … Continue reading

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Where to find advice on how to set up your enterprise prediction markets

Consultants – - Inkling – URL: Inkling Markets – (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) Adam Siegel — Post Archives at Midas Oracle Nathan Kontny – NewsFutures – (Maryland, U.S.A. & Paris, France, E.U.) Emile Servan-Schreiber — Post Archives at Midas Oracle Maurice … Continue reading

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The New Hampshire Hypothesis

Finally, the BetFair blog publishes one interesting post. It was about time. From our usual British suspect, professor Leighton Vaughan-Williams (who was on ABC News lately) —who else. How did everyone get New Hampshire so horribly wrong? These are the … Continue reading

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Still Waiting

- Still waiting for the new version of the Consensus Point site, with the list of their new clients. – Still waiting for the “Partners” page of the Inkling Markets site, and the updating of their customer listing. – Ditto … Continue reading

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Who will discover the Higgs boson first?

The CERN in Switzerland or the FermiLab in Illinois, U.S.A.? The New York Times has a 6-page dossier on CERN’s brand-new giant machine. by Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times — CERN will find the Higgs particle first: © … Continue reading

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Economists’ Petition on Prediction Markets

Statement on Prediction Markets – (Click here to read the abstract and download the petition from the SSRN site) – by Kenneth J. Arrow, Robert Forsythe, Michael Gorham, Robert Hahn, Robin Hanson, Daniel Kahneman, John O. Ledyard, Saul Levmore, Robert … Continue reading

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EXCHANGE OF THE DAY: US Futures Exchanges (USFE)

Chicago Business: [...] Satish Nandapurkar, chief executive of USFE, which has offices two blocks south of the Merc, says regulators will monitor holdings of more than 25 contracts, making it difficult for investors to amass a position that would sway … Continue reading

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Who will discover the Higgs boson first?

The CERN in Switzerland or the FermiLab in Illinois, U.S.A.? Turned out that the American physicists of FermiLab designed an equipment at CERN… and that equipment blew up in a bang. Failure due to miscalculations. As a result, the CERN’s … Continue reading

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Has the FermiLab in Chicago discovered the elusive Higgs particle?

They are not sure, yet. They are still analyzing data. (The FermiLab is located in Batavia, Illinois, about 45 miles West from Chicago. The CERN, located in between Switzerland and France, is their competitor; it’s the world’s largest particle physics … Continue reading

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