Attainment of rational expectations equilibria in asset markets calls for the price system to disseminate traders' private information to others. It is known that markets populated by asymmetrically-informed profit-motivated human traders can converge to rational expectations equilibria. This...

Information aggregation is a key economic function of markets. Evidence on limitations of human cognitive abilities have led some to doubt the usefulness and relevance of rational expectations equilibria in modeling information aggregation. We report results of a computational experiment with...