Abstract
To explore how speculative trading influences prices in financial markets, we conduct a laboratory market experiment with speculating investors (who do not collect dividends and trade only for capital gains) and dividend-collecting investors. Moreover, we operate markets at two different levels of money supply. We find that in phases with only speculating investors present (i) price deviations from fundamentals are larger; (ii) prices are more volatile; (iii) mispricing increases with the number of transfers until maturity; and (iv) speculative trading pushes prices upward (downward) when the supply of money is high (low). These results suggest that controlling the money supply can help to stabilize asset prices.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization |
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Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2020 |
Keywords
- Backward and forward induction
- Experimental finance
- Money supply
- Overlapping generations
- Price bubbles
- Price efficiency
- Rational expectations
- Speculation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management