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Tag Archives: micro-geography
Tim Harford on office micro-geography (and Google’s enterprise prediction markets)
Tim Harford: [...] We keep being told that because of cheap, ubiquitous communication technology, distance is dead. But if there was ever a company that we should expect to exemplify that idea, surely it was Google. This research suggests that … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate prediction markets, Dartmouth College, economic analyst, enterprise prediction markets, Eric Zitzewitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Google, internal prediction markets, Justin Wolfers, micro-geography, organizational sociology, Pennsylvania, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Tim Harford, ubiquitous communication technology, University of Pennsylvania
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Robin Hanson is not convinced by the Google experiment with enterprise prediction markets –to say the least.
Robin Hanson in a comment on Marginal Revolution: This is important work for organizational sociology, but not for prediction markets, as this does little to help us find and field high value markets. Finally, somebody who speaks the truth. See … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate prediction markets, Dartmouth College, economic analyst, economist, enterprise prediction markets, Eric Zitzewitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Google, internal prediction markets, Justin Wolfers, Michael Giberson, micro-geography, Pennsylvania, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Robin Hanson, University of Pennsylvania
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ROBIN HANSON TELLS THE TRUTH ON GOOGLE’S ENTERPRISE PREDICTION MARKETS.
Robin Hanson: Yes prediction markets are cool, Google is cool, and it is cool that Google had location data to show how location influences trading. But cool need not be useful. People are not asking the hard questions here: what … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate prediction markets, Dartmouth College, economic analyst, enterprise prediction markets, Eric Zitzewitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Google, internal prediction markets, Justin Wolfers, micro-geography, Pennsylvania, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Robin Hanson, ROBIN HANSON TELLS, University of Pennsylvania, Winston Churchill
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Have Google’s enterprise prediction markets been accurate?
Justin Wolfers: So we decided to move beyond asking, “Do prediction markets work?†and instead use them as a tool for better understanding how information flows within a (very cool) corporation. I am more interested in the accuracy of the … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate prediction markets, Dartmouth College, economic analyst, enterprise prediction markets, Eric Zitzewitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Google, internal prediction markets, Justin Wolfers, micro-geography, Pennsylvania, prediction markets, private prediction markets, University of Pennsylvania
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