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Freakonomicsed! I’m just happy to report that our research was linked by NYT’s Freakonomics :) Now, this is a great motivation to work even harder…

With markets, “trial and error” works, because error gets killed off. With politics, error often survives.Arnold Kling

Prediction Markets as Decision Support Tool for Supply Chain Management (pdf, in greek)An older paper of mine, now published in the monthly Bulletin of the Hellenic Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers

1837-2007: 170 years NTUA

Well, thank you Chris :)

Prediction Markets are NOT efficientsome early clues from a joint research effort with Panos Ipeirotis, more results and details to come soon

The Open Coffee Athens Meetings are “growing up”. After five quite successful events, some already call the movement an institution, while we all clearly see an ecosystem -the one of greek start-up and entrepreneurship community- developing. And this ecosystem now moves to a place looking much better suited for its present form and future growth. …

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An extensive history of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis-thanx themis–

Managing in the Information Age: A Harvard MBA course, putting google’s internal markets case in the forefrontby Andrew McAffee

Ads make the web go round. US internet advertisement expenditure is expected to surpass $21 billions in 2007, while the share of web ads in the UK is already bigger than ad spending in radio and newspapers. More specifically, adwords (+adsense) is maybe the single reason behind growth and sustainability of the biggest business fairytale …

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