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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812625103321

Autore

Cipriani Marco

Titolo

Herd Behavior in Financial Markets : : An Experiment with Financial Market Professionals / / Marco Cipriani, Antonio Guarino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-1443-0

1-4527-4000-3

1-282-84092-4

1-4518-6999-1

9786612840920

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (30 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/141

Altri autori (Persone)

GuarinoAntonio

Disciplina

330.12

Soggetti

Capitalists and financiers - Psychology - Econometric models

Investments - Decision making - Econometric models

Collective behavior - Econometric models

Asset valuation

Asset-liability management

Balance of trade

Capital market

Economics of Gender

Education

Education: General

Empirical Studies of Trade

Exports and Imports

Finance

Finance: General

Financial Risk Management

Gender Studies

Gender studies, gender groups

Gender

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

International economics

International Financial Markets

Non-labor Discrimination

Securities markets

Sex role

Trade balance



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; A. Literature Review; II. The Theoreticalmodel; A. The model structure; B. Theoretical predictions; Figures; 1. Prices and Traders' Expectations after a History of Buys; III. The Experiment and the Experimental Design; A. The experiment; B. Experimental design: the two treatments; 2. Prices and Traders' Expectations after a History of Sells; 3. Prices and Traders' Expectations after a Sell Followed by a History of Buys; IV. Results: Rationality, Herding and Contrarian Behavior; A. Treatment I; Tables; 1. Average behavior in Treatment I

2. Cascade trading behavior in Treatment IB. Treatment II; 3. No trade in Treatment I; 4. Average behavior in Treatment II; V. Comparison with Previous Experimental Results; 5. Cascade trading behavior in Treatment II; 6. No trade in Treatment II; VI. Individual Behavior; 7. Percentage of decisions in accordance with the theoretical prediction at individual level.; VII. Conclusions; 8. Regressions of the level of rationality in the experiment on individual characteristics. P-values in parenthesis

9. Regression of subjects' payoff at the end of the experiment on individual characteristics. P-values in parenthesis10. Regressions of participants' proportion of herding, contrarianism and no trading on the trader's dummy. Herd 1 and Contrarian 1 refer to Treatment I. Herd 2 and Contrarian 2 refer to Treatment II. P-values in parenthesis; References

Sommario/riassunto

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 herd seldom, in accordance with both the theory and previous experimental evidence on student subjects. A proportion of subjects, however, engage in contrarianism, something not accounted for by the theory. In the second treatment, the proportion of herding decisions increases, but not as much as theory suggests; moreover, contrarianism disappears altogether.