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Title: League-Table Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets
Authors: Cheung, Stephen L.
Coleman, Andrew
School of Economics
Keywords: league table
price bubbles
managed funds markets
tournament incentives
asset market experiments
Issue Date: Nov-2012
Publisher: School of Economics
Series/Report no.: 2012-13
Abstract: We study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for managed funds. Each participant’s portfolio is periodically evaluated at market value and ranked in a league table according to short-term paper returns. Those who rank highly attract a larger share of new fund inflows. In an environment in which prices are typically close to intrinsic value, the effect of incentives is mild. However in an environment in which markets are prone to bubble, mispricing is greatly exacerbated by incentives and even become more pronounced with experience.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8752
Department/Unit/Centre: School of Economics
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