Suckers Are Born but Markets Are Made: Individual Rationality, Arbitrage, and Market Efficiency on an Electronic Futures Market

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 336-351

  Oliven, Kenneth ^a   Rietz, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrage; Experimental asset markets; Individual rationality; Iowa electronic markets; Market efficiency; Prediction markets

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMERCE; FINANCE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ARBITRAGE; INDIVIDUAL RATIONALITY; IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS; MARKET EFFICIENCY; PREDICTION MARKETS;

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY;

EID: 1842732686     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0191     Document Type: Review

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