This paper investigates opportunities and approaches for forecasting the future, with a particular focus on Nobel prizes. We review different approaches, including using the “wisdom of the crowd” through approaches such as prediction markets. We drill down on prediction markets, analyzing...

We showed 10-second, silent video clips of unfamiliar gubernatorial debates to a group of experimental participants and asked them to predict the election outcomes. The participants' predictions explain more than 20 percent of the variation in the actual two-party vote share across the 58...

This study seeks to identify the principal factors that influence the results of the House midterm elections. The regression findings suggest that Gallup presidential approval rankings, percentage changes in RGDP, and the results of Virginia’s gubernatorial elections enter positively in...

Using the 2008 elections, I explore the accuracy and informational content of forecasts derived from two different types of data: Polls and prediction markets. Both types of data suffer from inherent biases, and this is the first analysis to compare the accuracy of these forecasts adjusting for...