Small group forecasting using proportional-prize contests

DOI10.1007/S11238-021-09825-0MaRDI QIDQ2114566zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fan Rao, Leonard Wolk, Ronald Peeters

Publication date 15 March 2022

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-021-09825-0

zbMATH Keywords

behavioral mechanism designcontestsexperimentforecasting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance (91-05) Mechanism design theory (91B03)

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• Z-Tree
• ORSEE

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