This study uses experimental asset markets to investigate the effects of experience and common knowledge on a market's ability to adjust for optimistic forecast bias. As a baseline, we find that period-end prices reflect unbiased forecasts in markets with private information and inexperienced...

The method of elicitation has an important effect on valuations. We investigate the effect of perspective on decision makers' elicited values. We conduct experimental sessions in which participants act as sellers or buyers, and replicate the disparity between willingness to accept and...

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to provide insight into how people use financial information. Investors are faced with an ominous task when trying to aggregate information about available investment opportunities. In the experiment, participants received a set of...

Research suggests that informational differences, including familiarity with domestic securities, underlie home equity bias. We suggest that home bias can arise more subtly. The bias may simply occur because individuals are more comfortable with domestic companies, irrespective of information or...