Margin, Short Selling, and Lotteries in Experimental Asset Markets

Lucy Ackert, Narat Charupat, Bryan K. Church and Richard Deaves

Southern Economic Journal, 2006, vol. 73, issue 2, 419-436

Abstract: The robustness of bubbles and crashes in markets for assets with finite lives is perplexing. This paper reports the results of experimental asset markets in which participants trade two assets. In some markets, price bubbles form. In these markets, traders pay higher prices for the asset with lottery characteristics (i.e., a claim on a large, unlikely payoff). However, institutional design has a significant impact on deviations in prices from fundamental values, particularly for an asset with lottery characteristics. Price run‐ups and crashes are moderated when traders finance purchases of the assets themselves and are allowed to short sell.

Date: 2006
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