Non-myopic strategies in prediction markets

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 200-209

  Dimitrov, Stanko ^a   Sami, Rahul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Information markets; Market scoring rule; Prediction markets; Strategic analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN EQUILIBRIUM; EQUILIBRIUM BEHAVIOR; GAIN INSIGHT; INFORMATION MARKET; LOGARITHMIC MARKET SCORING RULE; MARKET PRICE; MYOPIC STRATEGIES; NEW APPROACHES; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; PREDICTION MARKETS; RATE OF CONVERGENCE; SCORING RULES; SIMPLE MODEL; STRATEGIC ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FORECASTING; PROFITABILITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 58849106096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1386790.1386823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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