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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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Professor Koleman Strumpf explains the prediction markets to the countryland people.

Ah, Kansas… Barbecues, pickup trucks, rednecks, country music, and… the local FOX News. Despite that one blip on the radar [New Hampshire], Strumpf said futures are still the best way to predict the way things will go from here. Spot … Continue reading

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Professor Koleman Strumpf tells CNN that a prediction market, by essence, can’t predict an upset.

CNN: FOREMAN: I’ve got something I want you to take a look at. Look at this. It could be the price of a stock or a mutual fund. It isn’t. It’s the odds that a particular candidate, the red here … Continue reading

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Is it good to have a prediction market melting pot of academics and businesses?

The Journal of Prediction Markets: The Journal of Prediction Markets Editor: Leighton Vaughan Williams Associate Editors: John Delaney – CEO InTrade Bruno Deschamps – University of Bath Olivier Gergaud – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes Robin Hanson – George Mason University … Continue reading

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If there is one event to attend in 2007, the Koleman Strumpf conference on prediction markets is the one.

I’ve been thinking a bit about the different upcoming conferences on prediction markets, and it seems to me that the Koleman Strumpf conference stands out of the pack, because of its format. It casts, in a series of 4 successive … Continue reading

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Upcoming Events

— Consensus Point’s conference on prediction markets – @ New York City, New York, U.S.A. – 2007-09-24 What Have We Learned from Market Design? – @ Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, California, U.S.A. – 2007-10-15 Koleman Strumpf’s conference on … Continue reading

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Secrets of an Inkling Top Trader: Spotting Riskless Arbitrage Opportunities

The following is a lightly edited version of an item initially posted on my blog at Knowledge Problem: Secrets of an Inkling Top Trader: Spotting Riskless Arbitrage Opportunities: As mentioned previously at the Knowledge Problem, Inkling offers a public play-money … Continue reading

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Why is it that Prawf Koleman Strumpf of the University of Kansas is so enamored with Rite-Solutions’ Innovation Engine???

… is… The Question Of The Day. — Koleman Strumpf: [...] Rite-Solutions [...] runs an innovative ideas market (and I explicitly use this term since it is not a prediction market –they are trying to come up with ideas the … Continue reading

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