Workshop with Jan Vecer: Capital Lock-In in Prediction Markets

Schedule

Fri Oct 09 2026 at 02:30 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00
Location

International Affairs Building, Room 417 | New York, NY

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Join us for a workshop with Jan Vecer exploring The Price of Having Been Right: Capital Lock-In in Prediction Markets.
About this Event

Jan Vecer is a faculty member at Charles University in Prague and a Visiting Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He received his Ph.D. in mathematical finance from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 and served on the faculty of Columbia University from 2001 to 2010. His research and publications span quantitative finance, portfolio choice, derivative pricing, and the connections between financial markets, statistics, and information theory. Alongside his academic work, he has developed market-making bots for prediction and energy markets. He is the author of the forthcoming book Principles of Portfolio Choice: An Information-Theoretic, Likelihood-Based Perspective (Chapman & Hall/CRC).

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International Affairs Building, Room 417, 420 West 118th Street, New York, United States

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