Published January 1983 | Version Submitted
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Rational Expectations and the Aggregation of Diverse Information in Laboratory Security Markets

Abstract

The study explores the information aggregation properties of experimental markets in which a fully revealing rational expectations equilibrium exists. In single securities markets in which traders have different preferences, information aggregation seems to be minimal, and rational expectations equilibrium are not attained. If the market has a complete set of contingent claims securities or if preferences are identical, the rational expectations equilibrium model works well.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of this research which was provided by the National Science Foundation, Caltech Program for Enterprise and Public Policy, the University of Chicago Institute of Professional Accounting, and the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad. Published as Plott, Charles R., and Shyam Sunder. "Rational expectations and the aggregation of diverse information in laboratory security markets." Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society (1988): 1085-1118.

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Caltech Program for Enterprise and Public Policy
University of Chicago Institute of Professional Accounting
Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad

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