Aggregation and manipulation in prediction markets: Effects of trading mechanism and information distribution

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-140

  Jian, Lian ^a   Sami, Rahul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Market scoring rule; Prediction markets

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY OF INFORMATION; COMPLEMENTARY MARKETS; FIXED SEQUENCE; INFORMATION AGGREGATION; INFORMATION DISTRIBUTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MARKET SCORING RULES; PREDICTION MARKETS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THEORETICAL RESULT; TRADING MECHANISM;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84856248736     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1404     Document Type: Article

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