Modeling idea markets: Between beauty contests and prediction markets

Prediction Markets: Theory and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4-17

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

^a Department of Accounting Information and Management at Kellogg ^*  (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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