Biographical note: BossaertsPeter: Peter Bossaerts is William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management, Professor of Finance, and Executive Officer for the Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of "Lectures on Corporate Finance".

The Lucas asset pricing model is studied here in a controlled setting. Participants could trade two long-lived securities in a continuous open-book system. The experimental design emulated the stationary, infinite-horizon setting of the model and incentivized participants to smooth consumption...