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This paper addresses five questions about how stock market works and what we have learned from experiments in this field. 1, Why do we need even more data on financial market? Don’t we have enough already? 2. How could the data from such small scale simple markets help us gain insights into far more complex investment environments? 3. Is experimental finance a branch or variation of behavioral economics/behavioral finance? 4. What have we learned so far from assets market experiments? 5. What is next?
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Sunder, S. (2007). What Have We Learned From Experimental Finance?. In: Oda, S.H. (eds) Developments on Experimental Economics. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 590. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68660-6_6
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