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Harvard CS286r: Topics at the Interface between Computer Science and Economics

Fall 2008 Topic: Social Computing CS286r Additional Resources

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Papers on prediction markets listed on Yiling Chen’s Harvard webpage:

- Publications An Empirical Study of Dynamic Pari-mutuel Markets: Evidence from the Tech Buzz Game [PDF, 380k] Yiling Chen, David M. Pennock, and Tejaswi Kasturi The 10th Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), in conjunction with the … Continue reading

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Prediction Markets for the 2008 Electoral College = US Electoral Map

Interesting blog post from Lance Fortnow on the VP prediction markets. (I will soon blog about those.) InTrade – Electoral Markets Map Their brand-new widget: Get the <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/electoral-markets” mce_href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/electoral-markets”>Electoral Markets</a> widget! More charts of prediction markets on our “predictions” … Continue reading

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2008 US ELECTORAL MAP PREDICTION: Prediction Markets for the 2008 US Electoral College

ELECTORAL COLLEGE MARKETS: Probabilistic predictions for the 2008 US presidential elections based on market data from InTrade Ireland —(electoralmarkets.com). By Lance Fortnow, David Pennock, and Yiling Chen. – - #1. Explainer On Prediction Markets – A prediction market is a … Continue reading

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2008 US Electoral Map Prediction

- US ELECTORAL MAP: Prediction Markets for the 2008 Electoral College ElectoralMarkets.com – - Via Read & Write Web 2008 Electoral Map (based on InTade) + 2008 Electoral Map (based on polls) – UPDATE: Hal Finney – See our PREDICTIONS … Continue reading

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Better Pricing for Tournament Prediction Markets

Last year while working out a few thoughts on arbitrage opportunities in basketball tournament prediction markets at Inkling, it occurred to me that the Inkling pricing mechanism was just a little bit off for such applications. The question is whether … Continue reading

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At Yahoo! Research, Yiling Chen is David Pennock’s right arm on prediction markets.

Yiling Chen — Penn State: Yiling Chen joined Yahoo! Research in 2006. Her research interests are on the border of economics and computer science, including prediction markets, auction theory, and sponsored search. [Yiling] Chen’s current research focuses on better understanding … Continue reading

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Meet Yahoo! research scientist Yiling Chen.

Yiling Chen The Second Workshop on Prediction Markets – by Yiling Chen

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Second Workshop on Prediction Markets – San Diego, California, U.S.A. – June 12, 2007

Second Workshop on Prediction Markets – San Diego, California, U.S.A. – June 12, 2007 — 8:30 – 8:35 Opening remark 8:35 – 9:30 Amit Gandhi, “Rational Expectations at the Racetrack : Testing Expected Utility Using Prediction Market Prices” (20 min) … Continue reading

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FOUR U.S. SCHOLARS ACCUSED OF ANTI-HEDGESTREET BIAS

My questions to Yiling Chen, John Ledyard, David Pennock and Eric Zitzewitz (alias “The Quartet”): – Why is it that HedgeStreet (the U.S.’s first CFTC-regulated real-money prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange) is not cited? – Could you share with us … Continue reading

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