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Tag Archives: Super Tuesday
Intrade beats Zogby on Super Tuesday
Both the prediction market and the pollster called 5 of the 7 head-to-head contest winners, so it was mostly ties between them. But in the NJ Democratic primary and the California Republican primary, Intrade contracts pointed to the winner on … Continue reading
Justin Wolfers will be glued on InTrade on Super Tuesday night.
Much better piece than last time. No more prediction market event study —quite boring and of dubious quality. This time, he outputs a quality forward-looking piece, with a good narrative. [...] While momentum tends to build slowly in polling data, … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets
Tagged 2008 US elections, 2008 US presidential elections, Clinton, distributed computing, InTrade, Justin Wolfers, Politics, prediction markets, Prime Minister, Senate, Super Tuesday, The WSJ editor, US elections, US politics, US President, US presidential elections, Wall Street Journal
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How political prediction markets save lives
Over the years there has been a lot of talk in this community about how prediction markets could be “socially valuable”. The discussion has often focused on the value of the information and/or predictions that the markets could generate, especially … Continue reading
Still unconvinced by prediction market journalist Justin Wolfers
The Justin Wolfers series in the Wall Street Journal is plagued with rotten links to the WSJ’s bot-driven, play-money prediction sub-exchange (which is secretly programed to reflect InTrade’s real-money prices). — The latest installment (which does not featured a single … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Prediction Journalism
Tagged 2008 US elections, 2008 US presidential elections, ABC, content management system, Democratic candidate, Eric Zitzewitz, Eric Zitzwewitz, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Finance, InTrade, Justin Wolfers, Nigel Eccles, Pepsi, Politics, prediction market journalism, prediction market journalist, prediction markets, President, Republican candidate, Super Tuesday, technophobic editor, United States, US elections, US politics, US President, US presidential elections, Wall Street Journal, Will Be Democratic, Winning Party, WSJ Political Market
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