Title
An axiomatic characterization of wagering mechanisms.
Abstract
We construct a budget-balanced wagering mechanism that flexibly extracts information about event probabilities, as well as the mean, median, and other statistics from a group of individuals whose beliefs are immutable to the actions of others. We show how our mechanism, called the Brier betting mechanism, arises naturally from a modified parimutuel betting market. We prove that it is essentially the unique wagering mechanism that is anonymous, proportional, sybilproof, and homogeneous. While the Brier betting mechanism is designed for individuals with immutable beliefs, we find that it continues to perform well even for Bayesian individuals who learn from the actions of others.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.jet.2014.03.012
Journal of Economic Theory
Keywords
DocType
Volume
D47,D53,D82
Journal
156
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0022-0531
4
0.43
References 
Authors
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas S. Lambert17810.75
John Langford25392353.60
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan392942.23
Yiling Chen489684.11
Daniel M. Reeves558066.93
Yoav Shoham65530764.00
David M. Pennock73823451.85