bug futures references
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A market for trading software issues | Journal of Cybersecurity
Marktplatz zur Koordinierung und Finanzierung von Open Source Software by Georg J. P. Link, Malvika Rao, Don Marti, Andy Leak and Rich Bodo
A trading market to incentivize secure software: Malvika Rao, Georg Link, Don Marti, Andy Leak & Rich Bodo (PDF) (presented at WEIS 2018)
references
Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X (PDF) by Bo Cowgill and Eric Zitzewitz.
Despite theoretically adverse conditions, we find these markets are relatively efficient, and improve upon the forecasts of experts at all three firms by as much as a 25% reduction in mean squared error.
(This paper covers a related market type, not bug futures. However some of the material about interactions of market data and corporate management could also turn out to be relevant to bug futures markets.)