RE: Senators Denounce Policy Analysis Markets

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 19:59:32 MDT

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    At 05:50 PM 7/28/2003 -0700, you wrote:
    >From: Robin Hanson [mailto:rhanson@gmu.edu]
    > > You can make money when you have more information, and a
    > > terrorist who trades to profit from his information is in
    > > essence being bribed to give a warning about his attack. In
    > > our markets he could at most make a few hundred dollars from
    > > doing so, and his attack would have to be a pretty big deal.
    >
    >Robin, is this analysis online anywhere we can point other people to?

    Other than some slides in talks I've given, no.

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