Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67204 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6922
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We challenge the recent claim that mispricing in the experimental asset markets introduced by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988) is merely an artefact of confusion over declining fundamental value, and can be eliminated through appropriate training. We instead propose that when training is public knowledge, it reduces uncertainty over the behavior of others and facilitates the formation of common expectations. We disentangle the effect of training from the effect of its public knowledge, and find that when all subjects are trained to understand fundamental value, but this is not public knowledge, mispricing is as great as when training is absent.
Subjects: 
asset market experiment
price bubbles
common knowledge of rationality
JEL: 
C92
D84
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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