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The Paper reports a basic Experiment on the option pricing approach. Each trader with an increasing utility for money … values the option with his arbitrage free price, which is independent of the probability of the stock movement. The … experimental data show that the traiders learn to exploit more arbitrage as they gain experience, however, they value the option by …
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We compare the behaviour of students and professional traders from an influential German bank in an experiment … involving financial options. The arbitrage free option price is independent of the probability distribution of the underlying … exploit more arbitrage as they gain experience. The professional traders exhibit a less probability sensitive valuation, but …
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This paper reports an option pricing experiment on the binomial model, which has been conducted with professional … traders of financial assets. The experimental results are compared to a corresponding experiment with students. The data show … that professional traders achieve lower arbitrage exploitation as well as lower expected payoffs, as a consequence of …
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Dieser Aufsatz beschreibt ein Optionsbewertungsexperiment zum Binomialmodell, das mit professionellen Tradern von Finanztiteln durchgeführt wurde. Die Ergebnisse dieses Experiments werden mit denen eines entsprechenden Versuchs mit Studenten verglichen. Es zeigt sich, daß die professionellen...
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We investigate expectation formation in a controlled experimental en-vironment. Subjects are asked to predict the price in a standard asset pricingmodel. They do not have knowledge of the underlying market equilibrium equa-tions, but they know all past realized prices and their own predictions....
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economists to a rigorous study of expectation formation in the laboratory. In this work we describe a laboratory experiment on …
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We study the effects of the investment horizon on asset price volatility using a Learning to Forecast experiment. We … fundamental values for the duration of the experiment …
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Investors' Exchange LLC (IEX) is a newly approved public exchange that is designed to discourage aggressive high-frequency trading. We explain how IEX differs from traditional continuous double auction markets and present summary data on IEX transactions by trader class and or- der type. Our...
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Several financial exchanges have recently introduced messaging delays (e.g., a 350 microsecond delay at IEX and NYSE American) intended to protect ordinary investors from high-frequency traders who exploit stale orders. We propose an equilibrium model of this exchange design as a modification of...
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Livingston survey; and those made by students in a laboratory experiment. One key result is that neither group fares particularly … well, though participants in the lab experiment clearly outperformed the professionals. …
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