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The More the Merrier? : A Study Measuring Relative Efficiency of Two Prediction Markets

Our aim of this paper was to create a method for comparing the overall relative efficiency of a prediction market for the English football league Premier League and a prediction market for the Swedish football league Allsvenskan. The purpose of this was to see how the overall turnover of a prediction market affects the efficiency of it. We conclude that while the implied probability of the two markets on average corresponds well to the win frequency, the Premier League prediction market has statistically significant lower variation than Allsvenskan. The method we created can also be used to test the relative prediction accuracy of any two prediction markets/bookmakers given enough observations.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-242132
Date January 2015
CreatorsAnners, Carl, Saarm, Stefan
PublisherUppsala universitet, Statistiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Statistiska institutionen
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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