Nber Working Paper Series Prediction Markets
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Prepared for the Journal of Economic Perspectives. The authors would like to thank David Pennock, Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures, David Dempsey and John Delaney of Tradesports, Alison Fealey and Oliver Frankel of Goldman Sachs, and George Neumann of IEM for help with data. Thanks to Kay-Yut Chen, Robin Hanson, Jim Hines, Andrew Leigh, Betsey Stevenson, Timothy Taylor, Hal Varian, Michael Waldman, Craig Yee and William Ziemba for stimulating discussions, and to seminar audiences at Stanford, Kansas and Wharton. Doug Geyser, Chris Lion, Mike Goelzer, Paul Reist, Eric Snowberg, and Ravi Pillai provided outstanding research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004