Overpricing persistence in experimental asset markets with intrinsic uncertainty
Abstract
To study coordination in complex social systems such as financial markets, the authors introduce a new prediction market set -up that accounts for fundamental uncertainty. Nonetheless, the market is designed so that its total value is known, and thus its rationality can be evaluated. In two experiments, the authors observe that quick consensus emerges early yielding pronounced mispricing, which however do not show the standard "bubble -and -crash". The set -up is implemented within the xYotta collaborative platform (https://xyotta.com). xYotta's functionality offers a large number of extensions of various comple xity such as running several parallel markets with the same or different users, as well as collaborative project development in which projects undergo the equivalent of an IPO (initial public offering) and whose subsequent trading matches the role of financial markets in determining value. xYotta is thus offered to researchers as an open source software for the broad investigation of complex systems with human participants. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000392974Publication status
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Economics Discussion PapersVolume
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)Subject
Experimental asset market; Predicion market; Uncertainty; Experimental economicsOrganisational unit
03738 - Sornette, Didier (emeritus) / Sornette, Didier (emeritus)
03987 - Hölscher, Christoph / Hölscher, Christoph
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