Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222052 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IEHAS Discussion Papers No. MT-DP - 2019/5
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Abstract: 
A recent stream of experimental economics literature studies the factors that contribute to the emergence of financial bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to explain bubbles partially: Markets with the most risk-tolerant traders exhibit larger bubbles than markets with the most risk averse traders. In our study risk aversion does not correlate with gender or cognitive abilities, so it is an additional factor that helps understand bubbles.
Subjects: 
externalities
experiment
risk sorting
asset bubble
JEL: 
C91
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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