Resources on Prediction Markets

Prediction Markets might be useful in modern politics - gathering crowd information (expected outcomes) and filtering experts from the crowd (i.e. successful traders in the market).

Just a bunch of links to read on the matter:

• Prediction Markets im Journal of Economic Perspectives.
• Combinatorial Prediction Markets at oddhead blog. Overview about types of combinatorial markets and the problems with handling them
• Betting on Ideas in Communications of the ACM
• Internet-Based Virtual Stock Markets for Business Forecasting