A large body of literature concludes a negative association between ethnic diversity and pro-social behavior. Inspired by the works suggesting that the costly punishment would sustain the contribution level in public goods experiment, we compare the economic behavior of Mongolian- and...

This paper reviews the recent development and new findings of the literature on learning to forecast experiments (LtFEs). In general, the stylized finding in the typical LtFEs, namely the rapid convergence to the rational expectations equilibrium (REE) in negative feedback markets and persistent...

Does the ability to ‘read the market’ affect equilibrium formation in asset markets? To answer this question, we conducted pre-registered learning to forecast experiments with market groups composed of either subjects with high or low Theory of Mind (ToM) capabilities, elicited via the eye...

Rational Expectations (RE) models have two crucial dimensions: agents correctly forecast future prices given all available information, and given expectations, agents solve optimization problems and these solutions in turn determine actual price realizations. Experimental testing of such models...

Recent studies suggest that the type of strategic environment or expectation feedback may have a large impact on whether the market learns the rational fundamental price. We present an experiment where the fundamental price experiences large unexpected shocks. Markets with negative expectation...

We compare the performance of financial professionals (CFAs) with university students in four financial forecasting tasks ranging from simple lab prediction tasks to longitudinal field tasks. Although students and professionals performed similarly in the artificial forecasting tasks, their...

We study the impact of mortality salience on altruistic giving using a laboratory experiment. We primed subjects in treatment group with grid tasks and made mortality salient. We found that it made them think of things “bigger” than themselves, and therefore behaved more like maximizers of...

We investigate how individuals use measures of apparent predictability from price charts to predict future market prices. Subjects in our experiment predict both random walk times series, as in the seminal work by Bloomfield & Hales (2002) (BH), and stock price time series. We successfully...