An empirical investigation of the forecast accuracy of play-money prediction markets and professional betting markets

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Slamka, Christian ^a   Luckner, Stefan ^b   Seemann, Thomas ^c   Schröder, Jan ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betting; Forecast accuracy; Prediction markets; Sports forecasting

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BETTING; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERT OPINION; FORECAST ACCURACY; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; HISTORIC DATA; PREDICTION MARKETS; SPORTS FORECASTING; WORLD CUP;

COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; SPORTS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84870646115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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