Statistical properties of an experimental political futures market

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-16

  Wang, Sun Chong ^a,c   Li, Sai Ping ^a   Tai, Chung Ching ^b   Che, Shu Heng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 61449219907     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697680701447482     Document Type: Article

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