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- Title
Market Dynamics, Programmed Traders and Futures Markets: Beginning the Laboratory Search for a Smoking Gun.
- Authors
HARRISON, GLENN W.
- Abstract
Recent events have caused a re-examination of the role of programmed traders and futures markets in generating destabilizing price movements. Laboratory experiments provide an ideal environment to isolate their effects on behaviour. In a new series of experiments we find that program traders and futures markets can be crucial for ensuring the informational efficiency of the spot market, even when the former are active participants in bubbles and crashes
- Subjects
UNITED States; FUTURES market; PRICES; EXPERIMENTS; STOCK exchanges; NEW York Stock Exchange
- Publication
Economic Record, 1992, Vol 68, p46
- ISSN
0013-0249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-4932.1992.tb02295.x