BinarySoft: BinarySoft develop innovative cross-platform software to operate with online betting exchanges such as Betfair. Online betting is currently taking the internet by storm, with betting exchanges seeing huge traded volumes in a wide range of markets from sports to … Continue reading
Sean Park (Founding Partner at Sixth Paradigm, and blogger at The Park Paradigm) Sean Park is a leading independent thinker on the future of financial markets, the author of The Park Paradigm, and the founding partner of Sixth Paradigm LLP: … Continue reading
Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse: Prediction Markets Meet professor Justin Wolfers. Become “friend” with me on Google E-Mail so as to share feed items with me within Google Reader. Nigel Eccles’ flawed “vision” about HubDub shows that he … Continue reading
Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser: […] Blogs and columns are quite different, and The Marginal Revolution illustrates what can make blogs exciting. Mr. Cowen and his collaborators post to the website with astonishing regularity. Their blog posts are often brief … Continue reading
Wikipedia: A network effect is a characteristic that causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer which depends on the number of other customers who own the good or are users of the service. In … Continue reading
hi all, First of all, I’-m delighted to join this site – now as a blogger, and not just as a reader. You’-ll have to forgive me, but my first blog will go to “-self promotion”- of my new site … Continue reading
Is anyone aware of any research (scholarly or industry-based) examining bias in prediction markets, including how consumers form judgments in prediction markets and the extent of bias in those judgments. In fact, I’d be interested in any research that looks … Continue reading
We try not to post directly about our platform or new clients on Midas Oracle, leaving it up to Chris to highlight the good…- and the bad …- but we thought people might be interested in a new capability we … Continue reading
One or two traders were caught out Friday, following a late afternoon surge in the share price of both Sportingbet and PartyGaming. Sportingbet shares were up 15.9% at 43 3/4p whilst PartyGaming climbed 9.5% to 26p. Two factors may have … Continue reading
The imagination market – by Christina Ann LaComb, Janet Arlie Barnett and Qimei Pan – 2007-03-10 Information markets [= prediction markets] are typically used as prediction tools, aggregating opinions about the likelihood of future events, or as preference indicators, identifying … Continue reading
