Open-Source Platform for Prediction Markets in Development
Chris Hibbert introduces himself and the Zocalo project (link). He writes:
The proposal has now been issued as CN-TR-05-02: Zocalo: An Open-Source Platform for Deploying Prediction Markets. The presentation I gave at the workshop is up on the DIMACS web site. And my job is to make it all happen…
The goal of the project is the development of an open source toolkit
for creating Prediction Markets and of a community of interestd users…
Trials of prediction markets
are demonstrating their usefulness, but people who want to make use of
them are handicapped by not having access to tools that make them
straightforward to deploy. Zocalo is intended to fix that problem.
Our initial users will be experimental economists…Later applications will include trials in
industrial settings and eventually public markets for prizes or real
money…
I'd appreciate
contacts from economists who would like help setting up experimental
prediction markets, or others who are interested in exploring
deployment of prediction markets to answer important questions within
your organization.
