{"id":612102,"date":"2026-06-10T06:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/maximal-ban-on-insider-trading-would-hurt-prediction-markets-says-researcher\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:52:53","slug":"maximal-ban-on-insider-trading-would-hurt-prediction-markets-says-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/maximal-ban-on-insider-trading-would-hurt-prediction-markets-says-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Maximal&#8217; ban on insider trading would hurt prediction markets, says researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS13aGF0LWlzLWluc2lkZXItdHJhZGluZy1yZWQtbWFya2V0LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"'Maximal' ban on insider trading would hurt prediction markets, says researcher\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same insider trade that improves the accuracy of the price today can reduce the participation that makes the price informative tomorrow,\u201d said Balbinder Singh Gill.\n<\/p>\n<p>Prediction market regulators should consider a measured approach to insider trading enforcement as opposed to an outright ban, according to research from an academic at the Stevens Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868059\"><span>released<\/span><\/a> on June 2, assistant professor of finance Balbinder Singh Gill developed a formal economic model to answer the question of how strictly insider trading in prediction markets should be policed.<\/p>\n<p>A paradox exists in that \u201cthe same insider trade that improves the accuracy of the price today can reduce the participation that makes the price informative tomorrow,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/prediction-markets-need-a-little-insider-trading-academic-research-finds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe same insider trade that improves the accuracy of the price today can reduce the participation that makes the price informative tomorrow,\u201d said Balbinder Singh Gill. Prediction market regulators should consider a measured approach to insider trading enforcement as opposed to an outright ban, according to research from an academic at the Stevens Institute of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-612102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}