Prediction Market Resources

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Prediction Market Resources

This Squidoo lens has been created specifically to focus on resources available to anyone looking for more information on prediction markets.  It includes books, papers, and links to help you understand prediction markets and potentially to get you started with your own market.

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Prediction Market materials at Amazon.com

Books and other materials that could be helpful in your prediction market research, all from Amazon.com. Submit your favourite prediction market related books to add to this list!

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

The most fascinating text written till today on th more...1 point

Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions by Robert Hahn

Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions by Robert Hahn

This book is about prediction markets only, and is more...0 points

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan

I highly recommend this book as a background to ho more...0 points

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge by Cass R. Sunstein

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge by Cass R. Sunstein

A good book by Cass Susstein with a great section more...0 points

Key Prediction Market academic articles

Prediction Markets
by Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz. A great foundation in the topic.
Prediction Markets: Does Money Matter?
by Justin Wolfers, Emile Servan-Schreiber, David Pennock and Brian Galebach. This begins to answer the question about the effectiveness of play-money prediction markets. In short: they work.
Sales Forecasting at HP
by Kay-Yut Chen and Charles Plott. A good paper describing a very small-scale implementation of a prediction market to forecast product sales. It determined that the market predicted better than the standard method at HP.
Combinatorial Information Market Design
by Robin Hanson. This is the paper where he lays out his Market Scoring Rule mechanism for prediction markets, which allow for greater liquidity while keeping the key advantages of a standard CDA market.
A Dynamic PariMutual Market
by David Pennock. A description of his new market mechanism that allows for greater liquidity while still keeping the key advantages of a standard CDA market.
Prediction Markets as Decision Support Systems
by Joyce Berg and Thomas Rietz. A good overview of the setup and results of the Iowa Electronic Markets.
Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias
by Erik Snowberg and Justin Wolfers. A lot of great information and data if you're interested in the "Longshot Bias."
Predicting the Future
by Kay-Yut Chen, Leslie R. Fine and Bernardo A. Huberman. This paper outlines the latest HP innovation in prediction markets, which measures each person's risk profile and integrates that with their trading.

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Prediction Market News from Google

All of the news about prediction markets that Google can find. This list is updated every six hours.
The Betting Window Is Open for Greece's Future
Like stock or bond prices, its predictions, often expressed as probabilities, are derived by matching...
Scared of Facebook shares? Wager on Friday's close
Intrade, the online prediction market where investors can bet on numerous events, from movie box office...
Prediction markets don't work.
The markets indicate that there's more than a 3 percent chance that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt...
Ganeshaspeaks: Market prediction for May 25
?If you have the yearly book with you, you can cross-check the current predictions with the predictions...

Prediction Market blog posts from Google

All the prediction market blog posts that Google can find will be shown here. It updates every six hours.
The Betting Window Is Open for Greece's Future
Like stock or bond prices, its predictions, often expressed as probabilities, are derived by matching...
Scared of Facebook shares? Wager on Friday's close
Intrade, the online prediction market where investors can bet on numerous events, from movie box office...
Prediction markets don't work.
The markets indicate that there's more than a 3 percent chance that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt...
Ganeshaspeaks: Market prediction for May 25
?If you have the yearly book with you, you can cross-check the current predictions with the predictions...

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