Chapter 80 Results from a Dozen Years of Election Futures Markets Research

Handbook of Experimental Economics Results

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2008, Pages 742-751

  Berg, Joyce ^a   Forsythe, Robert ^a   Nelson, Forrest ^a   Rietz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 77957041389     PISSN: 15740722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0722(07)00080-7     Document Type: Review

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