Centralizing information improves market efficiency more than increasing information: Results from experimental asset markets
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Otros documentos de la autoría: Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; Grimalda, Gianluca; MORONE, ANDREA; Nuzzo, Simone; Teglio, Andrea
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Centralizing information improves market efficiency more than increasing information: Results from experimental asset marketsFecha de publicación
2017-09-07Cita bibliográfica
Ponencia presentada en las XXXII Jornadas de Economía Industrial. Pamplona, 7-8 septiembre, 2017Tipo de documento
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We study the relationship between market efficiency and the distribution of private information in experimental financial asset markets. Traders receive imperfect signals over the real value of an asset. Agents can ... [+]
We study the relationship between market efficiency and the distribution of private information in experimental financial asset markets. Traders receive imperfect signals over the real value of an asset. Agents can share their information within a relatively small – compared to market size - group of agents. Both the number of signals and the way these are allocated among agents are manipulated in four experimental treatments. In two treatments signals are evenly distributed among agents. In two other treatments one group of ‘quasi-insider’ agents receives more signals than all other groups. In the baseline condition no signal is distributed. We show that centralizing information unambiguously achieves higher market efficiency than spreading information evenly. Furthermore, increasing the amount of information has no effect on efficiency either when information is symmetric or when it is asymmetric. We argue that two complementary mechanisms drive these results. First, having more private information ex ante induces traders to rely on their own signals, reducing the expected benefits of sharing information. Second, the presence of quasi-insider being common knowledge prompts agents to extract more information from market prices rather than their own private signals. This leads to swift information aggregation. [-]
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Ponència presentada a les XXXII Jornadas de Economía Industrial. Pamplona, 7-8 septiembre, 2017
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XXXII Jornadas de Economía Industrial. Pamplona, 7-8 septiembre, 2017Datos relacionados
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Universitat Jaume I (project P1.1B2015-48); Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness (projects ECO2013-44409-P and ECO2015-68469-R)Derechos de acceso
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