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Asset Markets Produce Bubbles Even When Transparent

Even transparent experimental asset markets with a known common dividend produce price bubbles, as people get caught up in self-reinforcing expectations of rising prices; these bubbles diminish with trader experience, paralleling real-world housing bubbles like the one behind the Great Recession.

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Speaker

Vernon Smith

Evidence Quote

These markets are very subject to bubbles in the lab. And people get caught up in self-reinforcing expectations of rising prices... It goes away with experience, in the lab.

Source

Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human EnterpriseEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:22:45 AM

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