Gary Madden was a renaissance man with respect to the nexus between information and communications technology (ICT) and … economics. He contributed to a variety of fields in ICT: applied econometrics, forecasting, internet governance and policy. This … – Boulder and a Senior Fellow at Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, Columbia University …

Information aggregation mechanisms are designed explicitly for collecting and aggregating dispersed information. An …-embedded prediction market is to suggest that carefully designed market mechanisms can elicit and gather dispersed information that can … a result of the information exchange in social networks and can outperform other non-networked prediction markets. It is …

The paper studies a dynamic communication game in the presence of adverse selection and career concerns. A forecaster …

set of professional forecasts of financial and macroeconomic variables. More communication even increases forecast errors …