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WINE
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Prediction Mechanisms That Do Not Incentivize Undesirable Actions
A potential downside of prediction markets is that they may incentivize agents to take undesirable actions in the real world. For example, a prediction market for whether a terrori...
Peng Shi, Vincent Conitzer, Mingyu Guo
APIN
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A generalized model for financial time series representation and prediction
Abstract Traditional financial analysis systems utilize lowlevel price data as their analytical basis. For example, a decision-making system for stock predictions regards raw price...
Depei Bao
HPDC
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A statistical approach to risk mitigation in computational markets
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai
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SIGKDD
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
The True Lift Model - A Novel Data Mining Approach to Response Modeling in Database Marketing
In database marketing, data mining has been used extensively to find the optimal customer targets so as to maximize return on investment. In particular, using marketing campaign d...
Victor S. Y. Lo
WINE
2007
Springer
122views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Continuity Properties of Equilibrium Prices and Allocations in Linear Fisher Markets
Abstract. Continuity of the mapping from initial endowments and utilities to equilibria is an essential property for a desirable model of an economy – without continuity, small e...
Nimrod Megiddo, Vijay V. Vazirani