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Trial Title Social interactions and asset price bubbles Social interactions and asset pricing bubbles
Trial Status in_development completed
Last Published July 17, 2019 03:28 AM August 12, 2019 05:53 AM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date August 01, 2019
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 21 markets
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 21 markets with 9 students per market
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 11 social interactions markets, 10 control markets
Data Collection Completion Date August 01, 2019
Intervention (Public) The experimental design follows the bubble game experiment by Caginalp et al. (2001) and Andrade et al. (2016). The experimental design follows the bubble game experiment by Caginalp et al. (2001), which was also used by Andrade et al. (2016).
Experimental Design (Public) The experimental design follows the bubble game experiment by Caginalp et al. (2001) and Andrade et al. (2016). The experimental design follows the bubble game experiment by Caginalp et al. (2001), which was also used by Andrade et al. (2016).
Intervention (Hidden) With the help of this randomized controlled experiment, we intend to investigate the influence of social interactions on asset markets. The study will provide an empirical test of the hypothesis that social interactions increase asset price bubbles. The experimental design follows the bubble game experiment by Caginalp et al. (2001) and Andrade et al. (2016) with a critical variation: Different from Andrade et al. (2016) the treatment condition will not make use of videos shown to investors, but instead allow investors within the market to interact with each other using typical social media features such as likes. Thus, while the control condition replicates the standard bubble game by Caginalp et al. (2001), the treatment condition additionally allows participants to like the trades of their peers with typical social media features. With the help of this randomized controlled experiment, we intend to investigate the influence of social interactions on asset markets. The study will provide an empirical test of the hypothesis that social interactions increase asset pricing bubbles. The experimental design follows the bubble game experiment by Caginalp et al. (2001) and Andrade et al. (2016). In our treatment condition, we allow participants to interact with each other. In the control condition however, participants may not engage in any social interation.
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