Overpricing and stake size: On the robustness of results from experimental asset markets

Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson and David Schindler

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 154, issue C, 101-104

Abstract: We assess the effects of a stake size variation on experimental asset markets. Our results show that a fivefold increase in stake size leads to higher trading frequencies. Mispricing and overpricing, however, are not fundamentally different for different stake sizes.

Keywords: Experimental finance; Incentives; Traders; Bubbles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D53 G02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.035

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