Price bubbles sans dividend anchors: Evidence from laboratory stock markets

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1875-1909

  Hirota, Shinichi ^a   Sunder, Shyam ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward induction; Market experiments; Short term investors; Stock price bubbles

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247588703     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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