predicted by theory, we find that the presence of a flexible market price prevents herding. However, the presence of contrarian …Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: We report results of an internet experiment … designed to test the theory of informational cascades in financial markets (Avery and Zemsky, AER, 1998). More than 6400 …

Most real world situations that are susceptible to herding are also characterized by direct payoff externalities. Yet …, the bulk of the theoretical and experimental literature on herding has focused on pure informational externalities. In … effects, first-mover advantage, etc.) in a standard information-based herding model. Our results are based on an internet …