Online News and Awards
September 2, 2008
Studies: Markets Better Election Predictor
"Political betting on financial markets outperforms polling as an elections predictor, according to a University of North Carolina study and figures from the IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS ...
September 2, 2008
IEM Predicts Vote Share Better Than Polls
"In the IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS, a low-stakes trading market at the University of Iowa, participants can wager from $5 to $500 in winner-take-all futures markets in everything from political races to box office receipts ...
August 31, 2008
IEM's Success Noted
"A story about prediction markets notes the IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS, run by professors at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA ...
August 29, 2008
IEM Remains Unmoved on Barack Post
"You can spot a good market by the way it reacts to news ...
August 28, 2008
Ohlmann Researches Optimal Draft Strategy
"Using the same skills that breed success in the stock and real estate markets, people across the country are preparing for the fantasy football season ...
August 28, 2008
MBA Student Discusses Stock Picks
"Gabe Hilmoe, an MBA student at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA and student-manager of the university's Henry Fund investment portfolio, discusses some of the fund's recent stock picks ...
August 25, 2008
Rietz: Biden Selection Had No Impact on IEM
"THOMAS RIETZ, professor of finance in the Tippie College of Business, said Barack Obama's selection of Joe Biden as his vice presidential nominee had no effect on prices on the Iowa Electronic Markets ...
August 21, 2008
IEM Investors Predict Democrats will Win Election
"Traders on the IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS, run by the business professors at the University of Iowa, gave the Democratic candidate a 61 percent chance of victory versus 38 percent for the Republican ...
August 18, 2008
Stewart Discourages Fist Bumps at Job
"A story about the increasing use of fist bumps as a greeting notes that the handshake has been a part of business since the dawn of commerce and is too entrenched to be replaced, says University of Iowa management professor GREG STEWART, who recently completed a study confirming that a firm handshake at a job interview is as helpful as a dead-fish handshake is detrimental ...
August 18, 2008
Nelson Discusses Accuracy of IEM
"A story about research using prediction markets to predict political election outcomes explains that, unlike an opinion poll, investors in a market must choose who they think is going to win, not who they necessarily intend to vote for, and must vouch for that candidate with hard cash ...
August 9, 2008
UI Pioneered Prediction Markets
"A story about an Israeli company that forecasts business conditions notes that prediction markets, which rely on the "wisdom of crowds," were pioneered at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA ...
