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An automated market maker subisdizes Robin Hanson’s presidential decision-aid markets on Intrade

Written by Chris F. Masse on January 7, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Peter McCluskey:

Automated Market Maker for certain Intrade contracts
I have implemented subsidies to encourage trading of some conditional prediction market contracts that may provide useful information about the consequences of the 2008 presidential election, via a simple automated market maker (using an algorithm described near the end of http://hanson.gmu.edu/ifextropy.html). The subsidized market maker ought to provide [...]

Posted in Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Market Makers (Automated), X Groups | Also tagged automated market maker, Clinton, conditional prediction markets, Congratulations Robin, decision markets, decision-aid markets, Democrat president, Democratic party, Federal Reserve System, InTrade, Iraq, Justin Wolfers, oil prices, Peter McCluskey, prediction markets, President, presidential decision markets, Python, Republican U.S., Robin Hanson, United States, US government, US Treasury, USD

The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets Workshop starts today.

Written by George Tziralis on May 21, 2007 — 1 Comment

In a few hours, the workshop The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications starts at Palm Desert, California.
The quality of presenters is excellent and the workshop has succeeded in attracting high level contributions. The program and complete list of papers to be presented are available here, while directly related to prediction [...]

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Meta), Betting, Economics, Gambling | Also tagged Andrew Leigh, Athens University of Economics and Business, Australian National University, Bob Erikson, California, Chris Wlezien, Columbia, Columbia University, Eric Zitzewitz, Feng Zhou, George Mason University, Hebrew University, Iowa, Jakob Bergfjord, Joyce E. Berg, Justin Wolfers, National Football League, New York University, Norwegian School of Economics, Palm Desert, Pennsylvania, Philip O'Connor, prediction markets, Raphael Markellos, Ricard Gil, Robin Hanson, Ryan Oprea, Santa Cruz, Stanford University, Stefan Luckner, Steve Levitt, Temple University, Tom Gruca, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Chicago, University of Iowa, University of Karlsruhe, University of Pennsylvania, University of Waikato, Vasiliki A. Makropoulou, World Cup, Yahoo!

The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications

Written by Chris F. Masse on April 14, 2007 — 1 Comment

The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications – University of California at Riverside, Palm Desert, California, U.S.A. – 2007-05-10~22
Gambling: Design and Implementation 1
- “An Examination of the Determinants of Biased Behaviour in a Market for State Contingent Claims” Professor Johnnie Johnson, Southampton University Professor Alistair Bruce, University of Nottingham Jiejun Yu, [...]