Arbeitspapier

How accurate do markets predict the outcome of an event? The Euro 2000 soccer championships experiment

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SFB 373 Discussion Paper ; No. 2002,29

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Thema
experimental asset markets
prognosis
market efficiency

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schmidt, Carsten
Werwatz, Axel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2002

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10048875
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schmidt, Carsten
  • Werwatz, Axel
  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes

Entstanden

  • 2002

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