A prediction market for macro-economic variables

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Teschner, Florian ^a   Stathel, Stephan ^b   Weinhardt, Christof ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Research Center for Information Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOMBERG; ECONOMIC FORECAST; ECONOMIC VARIABLES; FRAMING EFFECTS; MARKET DESIGN; MARKET FORECAST; PREDICTION MARKETS; PRODUCT SALES; SPORT EVENTS;

COMMERCE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

FORECASTING;

EID: 79952972095     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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