Economics
Envy Freedom and Prior-free Mechanism Design
Algorithmic Economics NYC
Research in the Algorithmic Economics group at Microsoft Research NYC spans a wide variety of topics at the interface of economics and computation. Application areas include: auctions & mechanism design, crowdsourcing & human computation, information…
Computational Social Science
With an increasing amount of data on every aspect of our daily activities – from what we buy, to where we travel, to who we know, and beyond – we are able to measure human…
Prediction Engines
Research around information aggregation and prediction, including polls, probability elicitation, and prediction markets.These methods, broadly defined as wisdom of the crowds, are utilized for a range of outcomes: elections, marketing, internal corporate, military intelligence, etc.…
Act for Affordable Data Care
Market Power Screens Willingness-to-Pay
’12 Campaign: Predicting the U.S. Election
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research It’s a presidential election year in the United States, and that, we’ve learned, means that pollsters are on the prowl. The electorate for the forthcoming balloting will be…