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...

Using experimental asset markets, we study the situation of a financial analyst who is trying to infer the fundamental value of an asset by observing the market's history. We find that such capacity requires both standard cognitive skills (IQ) as well as social and emotional skills. However,...