Designing real terrorism futures

Public Choice

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 257-274

  Hanson, Robin D ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorics; Decision markets; Idea futures; Information markets; Manipulation; Moral hazard; Prediction markets; Selection bias; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748522418     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9053-9     Document Type: Article

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