Noise, information, and the favorite-longshot bias in parimutuel predictions

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-85

  Ottaviani, Marco ^a,b   Sørensen, Peter Norman ^c  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 85017094842     PISSN: 19457669     EISSN: 19457685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mic.2.1.58     Document Type: Article

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