[Fwd: Political Futures market in Italy]

From: Chris Rasch (crasch@openknowledge.org)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 11:14:47 MST


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Subject: Political Futures market in Italy
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:31:56 -0000
From: dmccarthy <dmccarthy@smf.co.uk>
Reply-To: ARMCHAIR@gmu.edu
To: ARMCHAIR@gmu.edu

This may be of interest to some list members

Don

Donald McCarthy
Centre for Post-Collectivist Studies

dmccarthy@smf.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marie-Edith Bissey [SMTP:bissey@SP.UNIPMN.IT]
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:24 PM
> To: ECONOMICS-EXPERIMENTAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Political Experiment in Italy
>
> [NOTE: If you belong to several mailing lists, especially of Italian
> economists, you may have already received a version of this email.
> We apologise for any duplicates.]
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> We would like to inform you about a research project we are working
> on. This project is financed by the Laboratorio di Economia
> Sperimentale dell'Universita' del Piemonte Orientale. We are hoping
> that this project may be of interest to you, and that you will be
> willing to pass on this message to your students and colleagues.
>
> The Facolta' di Scienze Politiche and the Laboratorio di Economia
> Sperimentale (AL.EX) of the Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
> (Italy) have decided to create electronic markets, following the
> model of the Iowa Electronic Markets (and in association with members
> of the Henry Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa).
> This new market is based on the next political elections in Italy
> (scheduled for Spring 2001).
> The Italian Electoral Markets opened for trading on the
> 1st of February 2001.
>
> Participants are able to buy and sell assets within a real
> market in which they can invest from 5 to 100 Euros. The
> registration gives right to a portfolio of assets representative of
> the parties or coalitions running in the election. This initial
> endowment can be then modified by buying and selling assets. The
> final value of the assets is computed on the basis of the proportion
> of the votes reported by the various parties/coalitions.
>
> For further information on the Italian Electoral Markets,
> and to access the markets, you can go to the AL.EX site:
> http://polis.unipmn.it/alex/iem/advert.html
> Note please that the market and the information are in Italian.
>
> We thank you for your attention and invite you to participate in the
> experiment.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Marie-Edith Bissey (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale and AL.EX)
> Carmela Di Mauro (Universita' della Calabria and AL.EX)
> Anna Maffioletti (Universita' di Torino and AL.EX)
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> AL.EX Laboratorio di Economia Sperimentale
> Facolta' di Scienze Politiche tel: (+39)0131283649
> Universita' del Piemonte Orientale fax: (+39)0131263030
> Corso Borsalino, 50 email: labalex@sp.unipmn.it
> 15100 ALESSANDRIA -- ITALIA site:
> http://polis.unipmn.it/alex/
>
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