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Better Pricing for Tournament Prediction Markets

Last year while working out a few thoughts on arbitrage opportunities in basketball tournament prediction markets at Inkling, it occurred to me that the Inkling pricing mechanism was just a little bit off for such applications. The question is whether … Continue reading

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Midas Oracle readers, do you want to play around with Predictify?

Ali Croft (of Predictify) to me: I think you’ll see as you play around on the [Predictify] site, though, that it’s not a betting site. It’s a knowledge exchange that taps into the wisdom of the crowd. There is no … Continue reading

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Will InTrade-TradeSpots lose big after the (hypothetical) passing of the 2007 Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act???

Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act: WINNERS AND LOSERS Aaron Todd: WINNERS 1. States That’s right, the biggest winners aren’t Internet gambling companies, nor is it the Internet gambler. It’s states, and states’ rights. Gambling has traditionally been regulated by … Continue reading

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Technology firms have left the big corporate R&D laboratory behind, shifting the emphasis from research to development.

Financial Express (India): Instead of looking at fundamental questions about the universe, Mr Huberman’s prolific papers identify how “prediction markets” can be used to identify successful projects inside companies; how to price a unit of grid-computing (broadly the harnessing of … Continue reading

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