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Edited By
Donald Hausch, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
W.T. Ziemba, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Audience
Primary: university, research, and major public libraries with finance and economics holdings.
Secondary: academics in finance and economics
Contents
I. INDUSTRY STUDIES
1. Pari-mutuel Horse Race Wagering – Competition from Within and Outside the Industry
Mukhtar Ali, University of
Kentucky and Richard Thalheimer, University of Louisville
II. UTILITY AND PROBABILITY ESTIMATION
2. Utility and preference estimation
Bruno Jullien, Universite de Toulouse and Bernard Salanie, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique
3. Comparing Efficiency of
the Over/Under Bets on NFL and NBA Games
Joseph Golec and Murray Tamarkin, Clark University
4. Approximating the ordering probabilities
of multi-entry competitions by a simple method
Victor Lo, Fidelity Investments, Boston and John Bacon-Shone, Social Sciences Research
Centre. University of Hong Kong
III. FAVORITE-LONGSHOT BIAS IN THE WIN MARKET
5. The Favorite Longshot Bias: An Overview of the Main
Explanations
Marco Ottaviani, London Business School and Peter Norman Sorensen, University of Copenhagen
6. Examining explanations
of a market anomaly: preferences or perceptions?
Erik Snowberg, Stanford University and Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania
7.
Unifying the Favorite-Longshot Bias with Other Market Anomalies
Russell S. Sobel and Matt E. Ryan, Department of Economics, West Virginia
University
8. The Favorite-Longshot Bias in S&P 500 and FTSE 100 Index Futures Options: The Return to Bets and the Cost of Insurance
Robert G. Tompkins, Hochschule fur Bankwirtschaft, Germany, William T. Ziemba, UBC, and Stewart D. Hodges, Univesity of Warwick
IV.
WEAK MARKET EFFICIENCY
9. Efficiency of racetrack betting markets
Donald B. Hausch, University of Wisconsin and William T. Ziemba,
UBC
10. Modeling Distance Preference and Pace Character in Thoroughbred Turf Racing
David Edelman, University College, Dublin
11.
Pointspread and Odds Betting in Baseball, Basketball and American Football
Hal S. Stern, University of California, Irvine
12. Arbitrage
and risk arbitrage in Team Jai Alai
Daniel Lane, University of Ottawa and William T. Ziemba, UBC
V. SEMI-STRONG FORM EFFICIENCY
13.
Semi-strong form efficiency in the horserace betting market
Johnnie Johnson and Ming-Chien Sung, University of Southhampton
14. The
dosage breeding theory for horseracing predictions
Marshall Gramm, Rhodes College and William T. Ziemba, UBC
15. Efficiency in Horse
Race Betting Markets: The Role of Professional Tipsters
Olivier Gergaud, University of Reims and Bruno Deschamps, University of Bath
16. Hong Kong markets TBA
John Bacon-Shone et al, Hong Kong University
VI. PREDICTION MARKETS
17. Index betting for sports and stock
indices
John Haigh, University of Sussex and
Leighton Vaughan Williams, The Nottingham Trent University
18. Prediction Markets: From
Politics to Business (and Back)
Erik Snowberg, Stanford University, Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania and E. Zitzewitz, Dartmouth
College
19. Betting exchanges: a technological revolution in sports betting
Michael A. Smith, Canterbury Christ Church University
Leighton
Vaughan Williams, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
VII. SOCCER
20. British soccer betting in Britain
David Forrest,
University of Salford
21. Efficiency of soccer betting odds - evidence from a
pan-European electronic market
Stephen Kossmeier and
Simon Weinberger, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria
VIII. LOTTERIES
22. Economics of lottery markets
Ian Walker, University
of Warwick
23. The statistics of lotteries
John Haigh, University of Sussex
24. US lotto markets
Victor Matheson, Holy Cross College
and K. Grote, Lake Forest College
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Hardbound, 560 pages, publication date: SEP-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-50744-0
ISBN-10: 0-444-50744-2
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND
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