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The study at hand deals with the expectations of professional analysts and novices in the context of foreign exchange markets. We analyze the respective forecasting accuracy and our results indicate that there exist substantial differences between professional forecasts and judgmental forecasts...
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We present results of an experiment on expectation formation in an asset market. Participants to our experiment must … period ahead; in the Volatility treatment, we also elicit subjective confidence intervals of forecasts, which we take as a … measure of perceived volatility. The realized asset price is derived from a Walrasian market equilibrium equation with non …
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We challenge the recent claim that mispricing in the experimental asset markets introduced by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988) is merely an artefact of confusion over declining fundamental value, and can be eliminated through appropriate training. We instead propose that when training is...
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more efficient and end-of-experiment imbalances common in SSW-markets are not observed. Our results demonstrate, that …
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Traditional finance is built on the rationality paradigm. This chapter discusses simple models from an alternative approach in which financial markets are viewed as complex evolutionary systems. Agents are boundedly rational and base their investment decisions upon market forecasting heuristics....
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This note is concerned with two recent agent-based models of speculative dynamics from the literature, one by Gaunersdorfer and Hommes and the other by He and Li. At short as well as long lags, both of them display an autocorrelation structure in absolute and squared returns that comes...
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experiment that regularly produces valuation bubble and crash events. Global sessions involved real time trades between subjects …
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Belief Equilibrium (RBE) for market volatility. It is argued that the theory of Rational Belief Equilibria (RBE) provides a … to balance between sellers and buyers leading to low market volatility. In short, the theory proposes that the GARCH …The purpose of this paper is to provide a non-technical exposition of the main conclusions of the theory of Rational …
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Endogenous Uncertainty is that component of economic risk and market volatility which is propagated within the economy … by the beliefs and actions of agents. The theory of Rational Belief (see Kurz [1994]) permits rational agents to hold … Uncertainty. This paper shows that most of the observed volatility in financial markets is generated by the beliefs of the agents …
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High-frequency financial data are characterized by a set of ubiquitous statistical properties that prevail with surprising uniformity. While these 'stylized facts' have been well-known for decades, attempts at their behavioral explanation have remained scarce. However, recently a new branch of...
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