Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History
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- Voth, Hans-Joachim & Giusti, Giovanni & Noussair, Charles, 2013. "Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History," CEPR Discussion Papers 9652, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Giovanni Giusti & Charles Noussair & Hans-Joachim Voth, 2014. "Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History," ECON - Working Papers 146, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
- Giovanni Giusti & Charles Noussair & Joachim Voth, 2013. "Recreating the South Sea bubble: Lessons from an experiment in financial history," Economics Working Papers 1381, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- Giusti, G. & Noussair, C.N. & Voth, H-J., 2013. "Recreating the South Sea Bubble : Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History," Other publications TiSEM dd894e7e-521a-4092-94b0-0, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
- Giusti, G. & Noussair, C.N. & Voth, H-J., 2013. "Recreating the South Sea Bubble : Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History," Discussion Paper 2013-042, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
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Keywords
financial bubbles; experiments; south sea bubble; risk-shifting; Government Debt; equity issuance;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
- N23 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2013-09-28 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2013-09-28 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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