Positive expectations feedback experiments and number guessing games as models of financial markets

Authors
Publication date 2010
Journal Journal of Economic Psychology
Volume | Issue number 31 | 6
Pages (from-to) 964-984
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract In repeated number guessing games choices typically converge quickly to the Nash equilibrium. In positive expectations feedback experiments, however, convergence to the equilibrium price tends to be very slow, if it occurs at all. Both types of experimental designs have been suggested as modeling essential aspects of financial markets. In order to isolate the source of the differences in outcomes we present several new experiments in this paper. We conclude that the feedback strength (i.e. the ‘p-value’ in standard number guessing games) is essential for the results.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2010.08.005
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