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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Autor Principal: Cipriani, Marco
Outros autores: Guarino, Antonio
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/141
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF