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Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) is a bad US monopoly on political event derivatives / prediction markets.

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Does TradeSports-InTrade “duplicate” the Iowa Electronic Markets’s political contracts?

The Iowa Electronic Market: Lessons Learned and Answers Yearned – (PDF) – by Joyce E. Berg and Thomas A. Rietz – 2005-01-00 In page 2, the authors treat TradeSports as “an online betting operation that has incorporated IEM-like contracts on … Continue reading

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