Provides a multidisciplinary treatment of prediction markets, including diverse perspectives from mathematical economics, agent-based modeling and simulation, econometrics, and other fields

Strengthens the empirical treatment in the book with the utilization of xFuture, a real prediction market

Gives a full demonstration of a rising new research field: computational, cognitive, and behavioral social science

Inhalt
Ch1 Introduction and Overview.- Ch2 Friedrich Hayek and Information Aggregation.- Ch3 Testing Hayek Hypothesis: An Experimental Economic Approach .- Ch4 From Market Experiments to Prediction Markets.- Ch5 Economic Theory of Prediction Markets: A Neo-Classical Approach.- Ch6 Complexity Thinking in Economics: Agent-Based Computational Economics.- Ch7 Agent-Based Modeling of Prediction Markets.- Ch8 Spatial Agent-Based Prediction Markets: Homogeneous Agents.- Ch9 Spatial Agent-Based Prediction Markets: Heterogeneous Agents.- Ch10 Alvin Roth and Market Design.- Ch11 Can We Trust Prediction Markets? .- Ch12 Empirical Study of Prediction Market Performance.- Ch13 Roles of Smart Players in the Markets.- Ch14 Models to Predict Prediction Markets.- Ch15 Conclusions.- Appendix A Exchange of Future Events .- Appendix B NetLogo.