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The Iowa Electronic Markets is a futures market run for research and teaching purposes. Traders can buy and sell real-money contracts based on their belief about the outcome of an election or other event. Using this "wisdom of crowds," the price of a contract at any given time is a forecast of the outcome.

Iowa Electronic Markets > About IEM > Research
  • What is the IEM
  • Previous Market Performance
  • Research
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • IEM Organization
  • Contacting the IEM

Research

  • Memoirs of an Indifferent Trader: Estimating Forecast Distributions from Prediction Markets (Berg, Geweke, Rietz)
  • Prediction Market Accuracy in the Long Run (Berg, Nelson, Rietz)
  • Incentive and Accuracy Issues in Movie Prediction Markets (Gruca, Berg, Cipriano)
  • Public Information Bias and Prediction Market Accuracy (Gruca, Berg, Cipriano)
  • Use of Prediction Markets to Forecast Infectious Disease Activity (Polgreen, Nelson, Neumann)
  • The Iowa Electronic Market: Stylized Facts and Open Issues (Berg, Rietz)
  • Consensus and Differences of Opinion in Electronic Prediction Markets (Gruca Berg, Cipriano)
  • Suckers Are Born but Markets Are Made: Individual Rationality, Arbitrage, and Market Efficiency on an Electronic Futures Market (Oliven, Rietz)
  • Results from a Dozen Years of Election Futures Markets Research (Berg, Forsythe, Nelson, Rietz)
  • Prediction Markets as Decision Support SystemsPrediction Markets as Decision Support Systems (Berg, Rietz)
  • The Effect of Electronic Markets on Forecasts of New Product Success (Gruca, Berg, Cipriano)
  • Longshots, Overconfidence and Efficiency on the Iowa Electronic Market (Berg, Rietz)
  • What Makes Markets Predict Well? Evidence from the Iowa Electronic Markets (Berg, Forsythe, Rietz)
  • Anatomy of an experimental political stock market (Forsythe, Nelson, Neumann, Wright)
  • The Explanation and Prediction of Presidential Elections: A Market Alternative to Polls (Forsythe, Nelson, Neumann, Wright)
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