Prediction markets: Fundamentals, key design elements, and applications

21st Bled eConference "eCollaboration: Overcoming Boundaries Through Multi-Channel Interaction" - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 236-247

  Luckner, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Market engineering; Prediction markets

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; FORECASTING;

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN ELEMENTS; FORECASTING METHODS; INFORMATION AGGREGATION; INFORMATION REVELATION; PREDICTION MARKETS; TRADITIONAL MARKETS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 77954668251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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