Predicting the future

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-61

  Chen, Kay Yut ^a   Fine, Leslie R ^a   Huberman, Bernardo A ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental economics; Information aggregation; Information markets; Mechanism design; Public information

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MARKETING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISKS; THEOREM PROVING;

INFORMATION AGGREGATION; INFORMATION MARKETS; MECHANISM DESIGN; PUBLIC INFORMATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037261629     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022041805438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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