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.

This page is very much a work in progressPlease add your favourite books, links, and comments to help others better understand the concept and industry of prediction markets. 

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.

Mercury's Blog 

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All of the latest posts from Chris Masse at MidasOracle.org.

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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.
Putting Prediction Markets to Work
Bo Cowgill, a quantitative marketing manager at Google, told me about his company's prediction m...
Weekend markets: Stocks fall for fourth week as recession persists
It was the agency's first prediction for 2010. Gold fell as a stronger dollar and lower oil pric...
Crowdcast Launches Prediction Markets Platform for Enterprise ...
"Crowdcast is the first enterprise-ready prediction markets platform that gives executives real...
Prediction puts NC jobless rate at 13% peak
Mike Walden, a William Neal Reynolds professor and NC Cooperative Extension economist at NC State Un...

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.
Putting Prediction Markets to Work
One of the most interesting stories I've written in the last nine months or so (at least in my opini...
Who will be the Next Philippine President? (Inkling's Public ...
Current value = probability prediction will occur, e.g. $10 = 10% chance prediction will occur. ......
Inkling Corporate Blog - Business Intelligence Using Prediction ...
Inkling Corporate Blog - Business Intelligence Using Prediction Markets. We hate: Corporate politics...
Who will win the Tour de France 2009? (Inkling's Public Prediction ...
The winner will very probably come from one of the riders listed in this market. The market will pay...

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Pontious O'Rosa wrote

Great Start.

Reply Posted May 04, 2007

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Jed Christiansen is the Managing Director of Mercury Research and Consulting Ltd.
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