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Tag Archives: John Ledyard
THE DAY ROBIN HANSON FOUGHT FOR HIS BABY
Robin Hanson on PAM: Just before Phase I commenced, I had designed and implemented a combinatorial market maker, and proposed that PAM use it. Charles Polk, president of Net Exchange, chose instead to refit their existing software to this application. … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, History, Inventions & Innovations, Mechanism Designs
Tagged CEO and founder, Charles Polk, John Ledyard, Market Scoring Rules, MSR, Net Exchange, PAM, Policy Analysis Market, prediction markets, President, Robin Hanson, ROBIN HANSON FOUGHT, set 255, simulation
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Meet John Ledyard.
Photo by Mary Hanlon John Ledyard (center)
MIT economics professor (and Nobel Prize-bound) Olivier Blanchard was Justin Wolfers’ thesis advisor.
—Olivier Blanchard Justin Wolfers — John Ledyard was Robin Hanson‘s thesis advisor. — Previous: Justin Wolfers and Robin Hanson ARE the top thinkers on prediction markets. + Is GMU professor Robin Hanson an inventor, an innovator, or… a complete loser??
FOUR U.S. SCHOLARS ACCUSED OF ANTI-HEDGESTREET BIAS
My questions to Yiling Chen, John Ledyard, David Pennock and Eric Zitzewitz (alias “The Quartetâ€): – Why is it that HedgeStreet (the U.S.’s first CFTC-regulated real-money prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange) is not cited? – Could you share with us … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry)
Tagged ConsensusPoint, Corning, David Pennock, Eli Lilly, Eric Zitzewitz (The Quartet), Google, HP, InklingMarkets, John Ledyard, Journal of Prediction Markets, Microsoft, NewsFutures, prediction market software solutions, prediction markets, public prediction markets, TradeSports, United States, Yiling Chen
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FOUR U.S. SCHOLARS ACCUSED OF ANTI-HSX BIAS
My questions to Yiling Chen, John Ledyard, David Pennock and Eric Zitzewitz (alias “The Quartetâ€): – Why is it that Hollywood Stock Exchange (the world’s #1 play-money prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange) is not cited? – Could you share with … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry)
Tagged ConsensusPoint, Corning, David Pennock, Eli Lilly, Eric Zitzewitz (The Quartet), Google, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HP, InklingMarkets, John Ledyard, Journal of Prediction Markets, Microsoft, NewsFutures, prediction market software solutions, prediction markets, public prediction markets, TradeSports, United States, Yiling Chen
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FOUR U.S. SCHOLARS ACCUSED OF ANTI-BETFAIR BIAS
My questions to Yiling Chen, John Ledyard, David Pennock and Eric Zitzewitz (alias “The Quartetâ€): – Why is it that BetFair (the world’s #1 prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange) is not cited? – Could you share with us evidence that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Leigh, Australia, ConsensusPoint, Corning, David Pennock, Eli Lilly, Eric Zitzewitz (The Quartet), Google, HP, InklingMarkets, John Ledyard, Journal of Prediction Markets, Justin Wolfers, Microsoft, NewsFutures, prediction market software solutions, prediction markets, public prediction markets, TradeSports, United Kingdom, United States, Yahoo!, Yiling Chen
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US Universities: Let’s Get Rid Of Tenure.
Let’s get rid of tenure for Robin Hanson, Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz, Paul Tetlock, Koleman Strumpf, John Ledyard, Charles Plott, etc. I endorse Steve Levitt’s proposal —just as a matter of libertarian principles.