Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1309-1341

  Cowgill, Bo ^a   Zitzewitz, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Information sharing; Market efficiency; Optimism bias; Overreaction; Underreaction; Wisdom of Crowds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943809372     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdv014     Document Type: Article

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