I. General

Gwern: Prediction Markets

Vitalik Buterin: Tales from the Election

Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X1

Decision Markets with good incentives

Statistical Tests of Real-Money versus PlayMoney Prediction Markets

On Market Maker Functions

II. History

Timeline of prediction markets

III. Mechanism

I. AMM

Robin Hanson’s LMSR for Prediction Markets: Best intro to LMSR

Lecture notes on prediction markets / LMSR

Automated Market Makers for Prediction Markets: LMSR vs CMM (uniswap)

Zeitgeist’s “Rikiddo Scoring Rule”: Improvement on parameter choice for LMSR

$C(q) = b(q)\ln(\sum_{i=1}^{n} e^\tfrac{q_{i}}{b(q)})$

$b(q)=\alpha\sum_{i=1}^{n} q_{i}$

Based on A Practical Liquidity-Sensitive Automated Market Maker

Hanson's original paper: Logarithmic Market Scoring Rules for Modular Combinatorial Information Aggregation

II. Parimutuel & Dynamic Parimutuel systems

Wikipedia: Parimutuel Betting

Pennock's original paper: A Dynamic Pari-Mutuel Market for Hedging, Wagering, and Information Aggregation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naTHlf9F8ms