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Stefan Luckner
Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Publications - 28
Citations - 335
Stefan Luckner is an academic researcher from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prediction market & Incentive. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 28 publications receiving 322 citations.
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On the Forecast Accuracy of Sports Prediction Markets
TL;DR: It is found that prediction markets for the FIFA World Cup outperform predictions based on the FIFA world ranking as well as the random predictor in terms of forecast accuracy.
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Prediction markets for foresight
TL;DR: This paper suggests four promising fields of application for prediction markets to enhance foresight by providing advantages in terms of continuous and real-time information aggregation, motivation of participation and information revelation as well as cost-efficiency and scalability.
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A Descriptive Auction Language
TL;DR: A descriptive auction language (DAL) allowing for the machine‐readable specification of arbitrary auction mechanisms and a market engineer can coherently describe a mechanism by means of the language and automatically deploy it via an auction runtime environment and a (software) agent can automatically deduce valid and reasonable actions from the description of a previously unknown auction mechanism.
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How to pay traders in information markets: results from a field experiment
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of different monetary incentives on prediction accuracy in a field experiment was studied, where three groups of traders, corresponding to three treatments with different payment schemes, were compared in a prediction market for the FIFA World Cup 2006.
Proceedings Article
Prediction Markets: Fundamentals, Key Design Elements, and Applications
TL;DR: The fundamentals of prediction markets as well as their key design elements are described to give insights into design decisions which have to be made by prediction market operators.