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Super-Exponential Bubbles in Lab Experiments: Evidence for Anchoring Over-Optimistic Expectations on Price


Andreas D. Huesler


ETH Zürich

Didier Sornette


Swiss Finance Institute; ETH Zurich

C. H. Hommes


University of Amsterdam; CeNDEF; Tinbergen Institute
May 16, 2012

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 12-20

Abstract:     
We analyze a controlled price formation experiment in the laboratory that shows evidence for bubbles. We calibrate two models that demonstrate with high statistical significance that these laboratory bubbles have a tendency to grow faster than exponential due to positive feedback. We show that the positive feedback operates by traders continuously upgrading their over-optimistic expectations of future returns based on past prices rather than on realized returns.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 27

Keywords: rational expectations, nancial bubbles, speculation, anchoring, laboratory experiments, behavioral model, super-exponential growth, positive feedback, behavioral expectations

JEL Classification: C92, D84, G12

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Date posted: May 18, 2012  

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Huesler, Andreas D., Sornette, Didier and Hommes, C. H., Super-Exponential Bubbles in Lab Experiments: Evidence for Anchoring Over-Optimistic Expectations on Price (May 16, 2012). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 12-20. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2060978 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2060978

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Andreas D. Huesler
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( email )
Zürichbergstrasse 18
8092 Zurich, CH-1015
Switzerland
Didier Sornette (Contact Author)
Swiss Finance Institute ( email )
c/o University of Geneve
40, Bd du Pont-d'Arve
1211 Geneva, CH-6900
Switzerland
ETH Zurich ( email )
Department of Management, Technology and Economics
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C. H. Hommes
University of Amsterdam ( email )
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Amsterdam, 1018WB
Netherlands
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Netherlands
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Tinbergen Institute ( email )
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