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Tag Archives: market designs
CrowdCast = market mechanism = binary spreads with a market maker
Leslie Fine (CrowdCast Chief Scientist) to me: Actually, our mechanism is a market, it’s just not a stock market. We use an automated market maker to efficiently price every bet, adjust crowd beliefs, and price an interim sell. In essence, … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Collective Forecasting, Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Market Makers (Automated), Mechanism Designs
Tagged automated market makers, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, collective intelligence that predicts, CrowdCast, event derivative markets, Leslie Fine, market designs, market makers, market mechanisms, markets, Mechanism Designs, prediction markets
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CrowdCast = Collective Forecasting = Collective Intelligence That Predicts
The fine people at CrowdCast (Mat Fogarty and Leslie Fine) are finally out today with their brand-new, no-trading, collective forecasting mechanism. The purpose is to aggregate information across one organization so as to generate the most objective business forecasts. The … Continue reading
Posted in Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Consulting, Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs, Software
Tagged Betting, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, collective intelligence mechanisms, corporate prediction markets, CrowdCast, employee intelligence, enterprise intelligence, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, forecasting, information aggregation, information aggregation mechanisms, internal prediction markets, Leslie Fine, market designs, Market Scoring Rules, Mechanism Designs, MSR, polling, prediction markets, private prediction markets, trading, Xpree
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Why CrowdCast ditched Robin Hanson’s MSR as the engine of its IAM software
- Leslie Fine of CrowdCast: Chris, As Emile points out, in 2003 I started experimenting with (and empirically validating) alternatives to the traditional stock-market metaphor that will be more viable in corporate settings. We found the level of confusion and … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs
Tagged Betting, Collective Forecasting, collective intelligence mechanisms, corporate prediction markets, CrowdCast, enterprise prediction markets, information aggregation, internal prediction markets, Leslie Fine, market designs, Market Scoring Rules, Mechanism Designs, MSR, polling, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Robin Hanson, trading, Xpree
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Smarter exchange mechanisms
The Pennock interpretation.
The pros and cons of HubDub
Ari Garber Nigel, please do contact Ari to give him additional info he might be interested in. [INSTANT UPDATE: Already done. ] Best wishes to Ari in his pursuit for better understanding the prediction markets. And Ari is welcome on … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs
Tagged HubDub, market designs, prediction markets
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3-outcome prediction markets
Our good doctor Servan-Schreiber is not as smart as he thinks he is. Let me explain. The great thing that NewsFutures has introduced to the world is prediction markets with perfectly symmetrical opposite outcomes. It is either white or black, … Continue reading
CDA, MSR, the automated market makers, and the human market makers
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Market Makers (Automated), Market Makers (Human), Mechanism Designs, Midas Oracle Archives
Tagged automated market makers, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, HubDub, market designs, Market Scoring Rules, Mechanism Designs, MSR, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, zigzagging
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