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To explore how speculative trading influences prices in financial markets, we conduct a laboratory market experiment with speculating investors (who do not collect dividends and trade only for capital gains) and dividend-collecting investors. Moreover, we operate markets at two different...
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To explore how speculative trading influences prices in financial markets we conduct a laboratory market experiment with speculating investors (who do not collect dividends and trade only for capital gains) as well as dividend-collecting investors. We find that in markets with only speculating...
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timing bubbles and crashes of individual stocks. Our findings imply that sophisticated investors may not always trade against … rational speculative bubbles, not entirely from sentiment-driven overpricing …
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We develop a parsimonious model of bubbles based on the assumption of imprecisely known market depth. In a speculative … possibility of bubbles depending on the risk-free rate, uncertainty about market depth, and traders’ degree of leverage. This … allows us to discuss several policy measures. Bubbles always reduce aggregate welfare. Among others, certain monetary policy …
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The presence of rational speculative bubbles in 28 commodities is investigated using the duration dependence test on …
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We investigate the role played by the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic in the speculative bubbles dynamics. In order … bring the evidence that large speculative bubbles can only occur when fundamental traders highly anchor to stock market … with slowly mean reverting bubbles lasting many years …
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's q ratio displays regular cycles of bubbles and crashes reflecting an agency problem between investors and producers. The … ; financial bubbles ; stock markets ; booms and crashes ; Tobin's q ; business cycles ; economic rents …
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, I review the existing literature and reflect on asset pricing tests to detect bubbles. I show that the emergence of … rational bubbles within the EMH framework is indeed possible as long as a number of assumptions is not violated. As researchers … show, these assumption do not hold in practice, which means that rational bubbles can be ruled out. Thus, a bubbles is …
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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 …
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This paper provides the first evidence for empirical test of the effect of rational expectations as well as behavioral biases including among others animal spirits such as defined by Akerlof and Shiller (2009) on the variability of trading. Using a data for five international capital markets in...
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