When should an expert make a prediction?

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Abstract

We consider a setting where in a known future time, a certain continuous random variable will be realized. There is a public prediction that gradually converges to its realized value, and an expert that has access to a more accurate prediction. Our goal is to study when should the expert reveal his information, assuming that his reward is based on a logarithmic market scoring rule (i.e., his reward is proportional to the gain in loglikelihood of the realized value). Our contributions are: (1) we characterize the expert's optimal policy and show that it is threshold based. (2) we analyze the expert's asymptotic expected optimal reward and show a tight connection to the Law of the Iterated Logarithm, and (3) we give an efficient dynamic programming algorithm to compute the optimal policy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEC 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages125-142
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781450339360
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jul 2016
Event17th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC 2016 - Maastricht, Netherlands
Duration: 24 Jul 201628 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameEC 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Conference

Conference17th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC 2016
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityMaastricht
Period24/07/1628/07/16

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