TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sebastian Diemer
PY  - 2014
CY  - Hamburg, Germany
PB  - Anchor Academic Publishing
SN  - 9783954896325
TI  - Does money matter in predicting future events?
UR  - https://m.anchor-publishing.com/document/287519
N2  - Prediction markets are online trading platforms where contracts on future events are traded with payoffs being exclusively linked to event occurrence. Scientific research has shown that market prices of such contracts imply high forecasting accuracy through effective information aggregation of dispersed knowledge. This phenomenon is related to incentives for truthful aggregation in the form of real-money or play-money rewards. The question whether real- or play-money incentives enhance higher relative forecast accuracy has been addressed by previous works with diverse findings. The current state of empirical research in his field is subject to two inherent deficiencies. First, inter-market studies suffer from market disparities and differences in the definition of underlying events. Comparisons between two different platforms (one for play-money contracts, one for real-money contracts) are potentially biased by different trading behaviour. Second, the majority of studies are based upon identical datasets of market platforms (IOWA stock exchange, Tradesports/Intrade, NewsFutures).
KW  - Prediction Market, Prognosemarkt, Eletronic Prediction Market
LA  - English
ER  -