 FORECASTING ACCURACY: COMPARING PREDICTION MARKETS AND SURVEYS – AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDYRobert Reig and Ramona Schoder Journal of Prediction Markets, 2010, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-19 Abstract: Prediction markets are viewed as the most accurate instrument for collective forecasts. However, empirical studies, mostly based on political elections, deliver mixed results. An experimental study was conducted to avoid certain biases and problems and to better control conditions of eliciting information from individuals. One typical problem is for example comparing prediction markets that focus on judging the public opinion in the future with polls asking for individual election preferences at a certain point of time. Therefore, our study compared forecast accuracy between prediction markets and a simple survey for the same forecasting item. The results showed roughly the same accuracy for all employed methods with the survey delivering slightly better results at lower costs, which was surprising. The experiments demonstrated also that it is possible to gain highly accurate forecasts with a relatively small number of participants (6-17) taking part continuously. Keywords: Forecasting accuracy; experiment; method comparison; information aggregation; prediction markets; survey (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:buc:jpredm:v:4:y:2010:i:3:p:1-19 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of Prediction Markets is currently edited by Leighton Vaughan Williams, Nottingham Business School More articles in Journal of Prediction Markets from University of Buckingham Press |
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