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Although some companies, such as Google, Best Buy and GE have generated and used prediction markets internally there has been limited investigation of real world use of prediction markets. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate three issues associated with real world data derived from corporate use of prediction markets.
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O’Leary, D.E. (2014). Analysis of Data from a Corporate Prediction Market. In: Zaraté, P., Kersten, G.E., Hernández, J.E. (eds) Group Decision and Negotiation. A Process-Oriented View. GDN 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 180. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07179-4_26
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