Anxiety and Learning in Dynamic and Static Clock Game Experiments
25 Pages Posted: 20 Sep 2010
Date Written: September 19, 2010
Abstract
In clock games, agents receive differently-timed private signals when an asset value is above its fundamental. The price crashes to the fundamental when K of N agents have decided to sell. If selling decisions are private, bubbles can be sustained because people delay selling, after receiving signals, knowing that others will delay too. Our results replicate the main features of the one previous experimental study of clock game (in two subject pools): Selling delays are shorter than predicted, but converge toward equilibrium predictions over repeated trials. We also find that delays are shorter in a dynamic game in which selling decisions unfold over time, compared to a static equivalent in which subjects precommit to selling decisions. A model of learning with growing anxiety after signal arrival can reproduce the empirical observations of shorter-than-predicted delay, smaller delay after later signal arrival, and shorter delays in dynamic games.
Keywords: Clock Games, Anxiety, Learning, Experimental Economics, Behavioural GameTheory, Price Bubbles
JEL Classification: C92, C72, D03
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