We study the effect of ambiguity on the formation of bubbles and on the occurrence of crashes in experimental asset markets à la Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988). We extend their framework to an environment where the fundamental value of the asset is ambiguous. We show that, when the...

We investigate how individuals use measures of apparent predictability from price charts to predict future market prices. Subjects in our experiment predict both random walk times series, as in the seminal work by Bloomfield & Hales (2002) (BH), and stock price time series. We successfully...

In a seminal work, Plott and Sunder (1988) offer support for the rational expectations hypothesis and report evidence that markets with certain features aggregate dispersed information. However, their results are based on only a few observations and our attempt to replicate the key findings of...