does money matter? emile servan-schreiber newsfutures, inc
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Does Money Matter? Emile Servan-Schreiber NewsFutures, Inc. It’s an important issue. When you want to bring markets within companies; For US-based public-policy markets; How much accuracy is at stake when you forgo real-money for play-money?. The Challenge. vs. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Does Money Matter?
Emile Servan-SchreiberNewsFutures, Inc
It’s an important issue
• When you want to bring markets within companies;
• For US-based public-policy markets;
• How much accuracy is at stake when you forgo real-money for play-money?
The Challenge
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More than 200 individual games
Price = ProbabilityAcquire or lose points through a scoring rule
New England Patriots over Philadelphia Eagles
Absolute Accumulation of Pointsin the Probability Football Contest
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Week into the NFL season
Servan-Schreiber, Wolfers, Pennock & Galebach (2004)Prediction Markets: Does Money Matter? Electronic Markets, 14(3).
Tradesports vs. NewsFutures(predicting NFL games)
Absolute Accumulation of Pointsin the Probability Football Contest
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500
1,000
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Week into the NFL season
Tradesports vs. NewsFutures(predicting NFL games)
Servan-Schreiber, Wolfers, Pennock & Galebach (2004)Prediction Markets: Does Money Matter? Electronic Markets, 14(3).
Absolute Accumulation of Pointsin the Probability Football Contest
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1,000
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2,000
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Week into the NFL season
Using real-moneydoesn’t buy any
additional accuracyas long as the tradersare knowledgeable
and motivated(upside).
Real Cash vs. Play Money(predicting NFL games)
Servan-Schreiber, Wolfers, Pennock & Galebach (2004)Prediction Markets: Does Money Matter? Electronic Markets, 14(3).
Markets vs Individual Experts
NewsFutures’ markets finished in the top 0.4%Competing against 1810 individual NFL experts
In the Probability Football contest(rank = 6th / 1810)
Servan-Schreiber, Wolfers, Pennock & Galebach (2004)Prediction Markets: Does Money Matter? Electronic Markets, 14(3).
Prediction Performance of MarketsRelative to Individual Experts
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Week into the NFL season
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Tradesports
Thanks to their consistent accuracy over the entire season, the markets progressively beat most individual “experts”.
Markets vs Individual Experts
Servan-Schreiber, Wolfers, Pennock & Galebach (2004)Prediction Markets: Does Money Matter? Electronic Markets, 14(3).
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Bush 2004 Contract
A Bush “blowout” or “too-close-to-call”?
50%chance
An unusually close election
• Smallest popular vote margin of victory (2.7%) for an incumbent president since 1828.
• It all came down to 60,000 votes in Ohio.