This paper studies strategic default using an experimental approach. The experiment considers a stochastic asset process and a loan with no down-payment. The treatments are two asset volatilities (high and low) and the absence and presence of social interactions via a direct effect on the...

We study a setting where a buyer chooses one of several available options whose values are initially unknown but can be discovered through costly search. Search is sequential, with perfect recall, which implies it is optimal for the buyer to search until the best option encountered so far...

The prediction market literature proposes that markets efficiently incorporate all available information. In contrast, behavioral finance assumes individual decision-making biases affect financial markets. We examine both using Iowa Electronic Market (IEM) data. We ask whether markets appear...