Experiments in Finance – A Survey of Historical Trends

Christoph Huber and Michael Kirchler

Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

Abstract: Experiments complement other methods in identifying causal relationships and measuring behavioral deviations from theoretical predictions. While the experimental method has long been central in many scientific disciplines, it was almost nonexistent in finance until the 1980s. To survey the development of experiments in finance, we compiled a comprehensive account of experimental studies published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Quantitative and Financial Analysis, and Journal of Banking and Finance, and experimental finance studies published in the top 5 journals in economics. With this novel dataset, we identified historical trends in experimental finance. Since the first experiments were published in finance journals in the 1980s, especially in the last 20 years, the share of experimental publications in these journals has markedly increased. In this article, we report trends toward descriptive, individual decision, and field experiments.

Keywords: Experimental finance; laboratory experiments; field experiments; survey. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B41 C90 G00 G41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2022-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-exp, nep-his and nep-hpe
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