Purpose – This paper aims to study how the trajectory of fundamental values affects price discovery in an experimental asset market. Design/methodology/approach – An experiment is conducted with two treatments, in which the time path of fundamentals differs between treatments. In the peak...

Purpose – This paper aims to study how the trajectory of fundamental values affects price discovery in an experimental asset market. Design/methodology/approach – An experiment is conducted with two treatments, in which the time path of fundamentals differs between treatments. In the peak...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider whether asymmetric information about correlations between assets can induce financial contagion. Contagion, unjustified by fundamentals, would arise if participants react in one market to uninformative trades in the other market that actually...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the upcoming symposium on experimental macroeconomics in the November issue. Design/methodology/approach – Experimental, survey of articles in the symposium. Findings – The paper describes how experiments can be used in macroeconomics....