Download This PaperExperience Does not Eliminate Bubbles: Experimental Evidence
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2018-092/II
72 Pages Posted: 12 Dec 2018 Last revised: 16 Apr 2020
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Experience Does not Eliminate Bubbles: Experimental Evidence
Date Written: March 12, 2020
Abstract
We study the role of experience in the formation of asset price bubbles. Therefore, we conduct a call market experiment in which participants trade assets with each other and a learning-to-forecast experiment in which participants only forecast future prices (while trade based on these forecasts is computerized). Each experiment comprises three treatments varying the information that participants receive about the fundamental value. Each market is repeated three times. Throughout, we observe sizable bubbles that do not disappear with experience. Our findings in the call market experiment stand in contrast to the literature. Our findings in the learning-to-forecast experiment are novel.
Keywords: Experimental finance, asset market experiment, level-k reasoning, bubbles, experience
JEL Classification: G40, C92, D53, D90
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Matthias Weber
University of St. Gallen - School of Finance ( email )
Unterer Graben 21
St.Gallen, CH-9000
Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute ( email )
c/o University of Geneva
40, Bd du Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland