We report results from fifteen computerized double auctions with concurrent trading of two commodities. In contrast to prior experimental markets, buyers' demands are induced via CES earnings functions defined over the two traded goods, with a fiat money expenditure constraint. Sellers receive...

This paper investigates the effect of dividend timing on price bubbles and endogenous expectations in twenty-six laboratory asset markets. In ten "A1" markets, a single dividend is paid at the end of the trading horizon. In nine "A2" markets, dividends are paid at the end of each trading period....

This report summarizes some of the findings of an experimental investigation motivated by the question, How might exchange, specialization, and property--rules governing actions--emerge jointly in human economic betterment? Sparse experimental instructions in a virtual village environment serve...