Removing arbitrage from wagering mechanisms

EC 2014 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 377-394

  Chen, Yiling ^a   Devanur, Nikhil R ^b   Pennock, David M ^b   Vaughan, Jennifer Wortman ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

immutable beliefs; no arbitrage; scoring rules; wagering mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ARBITRAGE OPPORTUNITY; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; IMMUTABLE BELIEFS; INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY; INDIVIDUAL RATIONALITY; NO ARBITRAGE; OTHER PROPERTIES; SCORING RULES;

EID: 84903189896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2600057.2602876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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