Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65357 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 2002,29
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
For the Euro 2000 Soccer Championships an experimental asset market was condueted, with traders buying and selling contracts on the winners of individual matches. Market-generated probabilities are compared to professional bet quotas, and factors that are responsible for the quality of the market prognosis are identified. The comparison shows, that the market is more accurate than the random predictor and slightly better than professional bet quotas, in the sense of mean square error. Moreover, the more certain the market predicts the outcome of an event the more accurate is the prediction.
Subjects: 
experimental asset markets
prognosis
market efficiency
JEL: 
C93
D4
G1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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