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Kaivik: A Free Online Asset Market Cellphone Interface Experiment with Financial Bubbles

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  • Kyle Hampton

    (Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage)

  • Paul Johnson

    (Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage)

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The authors present Kaivik, a free online asset auction classroom experiment platform that works with cellphones. Students use cellphones to trade units of a financial asset (shares in a single company) by submitting bid and ask prices plus the number of asset units they are offering to buy or sell per transaction. In this "order book" system the liquidity of the asset market at any point in time is variable. Trading can generate asset market bubbles. Instructors set key experiment parameters. Results are recorded and can be presented on a screen for discussion. Students are given an experiment report template to complete.

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  • Kyle Hampton & Paul Johnson, 2021. "Kaivik: A Free Online Asset Market Cellphone Interface Experiment with Financial Bubbles," Working Papers 2021-04, University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ala:wpaper:2021-04
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    • A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
    • G17 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Financial Forecasting and Simulation

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