Herd Behavior in Financial Markets : An Experiment with Financial Market Professionals /

We study herd behavior in a laboratory financial market with financial market professionals. We compare two treatments, one in which the price adjusts to the order flow so that herding should never occur, and one in which event uncertainty makes herding possible. In the first treatment, subjects her...

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Auteur principal: Cipriani, Marco
Autres auteurs: Guarino, Antonio
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/141
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF