Reputational Herding in Financial Markets: A Laboratory Experiment

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Zusammenfassung

We study reputational herding in Önancial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008), career concerns are introduced in a sequential asset market, where wages for investors are set by subjects in the role of employers. Employers can observe investment behavior, but not investorsíability types. Thereby, reputational incentives may arise endogenously. We Önd that ...

Zusammenfassung

We study reputational herding in Önancial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008), career concerns are introduced in a sequential asset market, where wages for investors are set by subjects in the role of employers. Employers can observe investment behavior, but not investorsíability types. Thereby, reputational incentives may arise endogenously. We Önd that a sizeable fraction of investors follows an established trend even in a setting where there are no reputational incentives. In a setting where there are reputational concerns, they do not seem to create substantial herd behavior.