Effects of social networks on prediction markets: Examination in a controlled experiment

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 235-268

  Qiu, Liangfei ^a   Rui, Huaxia ^b   Whinston, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

information exchange; prediction markets; social networks

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; EXPERIMENTS; INVESTMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; PREDICTION MARKETS; RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84900026165     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222300409     Document Type: Article

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