Item #3 (and my final one) from the 2007 NY Prediction Market Conference Perhaps the most interesting talk of the day was given by Jed Christiansen of Mercury Consulting. He reviewed the results of his study, where people used a prediction market to make bets on the outcomes of a series of boat races. (Apparently [...]
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