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Meet the tenured Eric Zitzewitz.

Eric Zitzewitz = Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College – Greater Boston Area, MA, USA — Eric Zitzewitz (at LinkedIn): Current – Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Past – Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School … Continue reading

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CNBC ALERT: HedgeStreet’s Russell Andersson – 2:50pm ET – Tuesday, June 5, 2007

CNBC – (& CNBC Europe, I believe) – Topic: Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions HedgeStreet “Binary Options” contracts on corporate mergers and acquisitions: – NYSE & ISE – Microsoft & Yahoo! – Hershey & Cadbury – Deutsche Borse & ISE – … Continue reading

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Mergers & Acquisitions prediction markets at InTrade-TradeSports

InTrade-TradeSports: – XM and Sirius Satellite Merger – Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Merger – NYSE and ISE Merger – Microsoft and Yahoo Merger – Hershey and Cadbury Merger – Deutsche Borse and ISE Merger – News Corp and Dow … Continue reading

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Prawfs Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz: How many divisions??

XM and Sirius Satellite Merger — 125 transactions on the three prediction markets

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XM-Sirius merger derivative – One transaction, only, so far

XM-Sirius merger contract at TradeSports-Intrade – One single trade, only, so far. Via the intrepid Fabian John of the 1st Tick forum, the New York Times: Still, it seems as if Mr. Karmazin may be paying a premium to do … Continue reading

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XM-Sirius merger — REDUX

As you know from reading this group blog yesterday, InTrade-TradeSports created a new set of prediction markets about the XM-Sirius merger. I looked into the web stats this morning, and the number of web readers [*] who clicked thru the … Continue reading

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XM-Sirius merger

So at Justin’s and my suggestion, Intrade has just listed a contract on whether the XM-Sirius merger will close. (We’ve been waiting for a nice, juicy, controversial merger like this ever since Hp-Compaq.) Interestingly, the MM has it at 60 … Continue reading

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