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Tag Archives: Steve Roman
Got that hardcover book on my desk, thanks to Steve Roman. It’s out in paperback form, today —for small people like you (the readers), who are not famous on the Web, and hence don’t get all the free gigs that big bloggers get for free. (((I pity you.)))
Posted in Resources - References
Tagged Humor, Inner Economist, Steve Roman, Tyler Cowen
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Tennis is not systematically nor institutionally corrupt. There is no evidence of a link to the Mafia.
Only 45 suspicious tennis matches out of the hundreds of thousands of matches played over the last five years. That’s peanuts. – Via Steve Roman Bloomberg New York Times The Times (of London) The Guardian – Previously: The Mark Davies … Continue reading
An Atlanta hair saloon is one of the many satisfied clients of WeatherBill.
Via Steve Roman, The Atlanta Journal – Constitution: [...] Atlanta hair salon owners Ray Luciano and Spencer Malay recently reeled in a bundle — tens of thousands of dollars — after taking out insurance-like coverage called “weather derivatives.” Their Buckhead … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Hedging & Insurance, Money
Tagged Atlanta, Atlanta hair saloon, Atlanta Journal, Christmas, Eric Zitzewitz, insurance-like coverage, Ray Luciano, Spencer Malay, Spencer Malay Hair, Steve Roman, The Atlanta Journal - Constitution, WeatherBill
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Prediction Market Industry Association = useless, so far
We have witnessed a backlash against the prediction markets just after the Hew Hampshire fiasco. Some bloggers and journalists picked on the prediction markets (InTrade, that is), even though both the polls and the pundits were awfully wrong too. [*] … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Prediction Journalism
Tagged Adam, Adam Siegel, blog, bloggers, Chris Masse, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Eric Zitzewitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Everyday Economist, Felix Salmon, George Tziralis, Jason Ruspini, Jed Christiansen, John Tierney, Jonathan Kennedy, Justin Wolfers, Lance Fortnow, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, Mike Giberson, Nigel Eccles, PMIA, polls, Prediction Market Industry Association, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Sean Park, Steve Roman, the New York Times, Tim Harford, Wall Street Journal
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BetFair-TradeFair fights corruption, while TradeSports-InTrade does not.
— BetFair-TradeFair is legal and has ethics, while TradeSports-InTrade is not and has none. — Via Steve Roman who provides the recap and another excerpt, The New York Times: [...] At the center of the investigation is Betfair, one of … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Regulations
Tagged Analysis (Data) - Sports / Politics Corruption, Argentina, BetFair, Betfair spokesman, Davydenko, Internet addresses, London, Martin Vassallo Arguello, Poland, prediction markets, Rafael Nadal, Robin Marks, Roger Federer, so-called online sports exchanges, Sopot, sports leagues, Steve Roman, tennis, the New York Times, USD, Wimbledon
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Massachusetts governor’s proposal to send the TradeSports-InTrade traders to jail is foolish.
Steve Roman: Expect to see more of this. State politicians have a big problem: they’ve made lots of promises and are financially unable to keep all of them. For the states, pension and health care promises made during expansionary times … Continue reading
Is Steve Roman the Planet Earth’s best psychic of all times –past, present and future?
Steve Roman: Why Hedgestreet Will Fail They lead the prediction market field in generation of press releases, but their volumes and fees are abysmal. They are in an imaginary niche. The big boys play at the CME. The little guys … Continue reading