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題名 Cognitive ability and earnings performance: Evidence from double auction market experiments
作者 陳樹衡; 楊立行
Chen, Shu-Heng; Yang, Lee-Xieng; Tai, Chung-Ching
貢獻者 經濟學系 ; 心理學系
關鍵詞 Cognitive ability ; Working memory capacity ; Double auction markets ; Bidding behavior ; Earnings performance ; Artificial traders
日期 2018-06
上傳時間 30-Jan-2018 15:18:40 (UTC+8)
摘要 Our goal in this paper is to understand how heterogeneity in people’s cognitive ability leads to different market behavior, and thus different market performance. To do this, subjects with heterogeneous working memory capacity (WMC) were placed in a double-auction environment to compete against artificial traders. We considered two treatments which differ in the artificial traders. The artificial traders are truth-telling in the first treatment, but demonstrate adaptive trading behavior in the second one. Our results show that working memory capacity has a significantly positive effect on subjects’ market performance, and the performance gap caused by cognitive ability, while narrowing over time, remains significant by the end of experiment. We find that differences in subjects’ performance resulted from their behavior: high-WMC subjects were better at exploiting extra profit opportunities and avoiding unprofitable transactions, and they tended to underbid more than those with lower WMC. Among the five constituent abilities of WMC, we find that it is distinctive abilities which contribute to the overall significance in these two treatments. For the treatment involving truth-telling traders, the relevant factor is the ability of simultaneous processing and storing information; whereas, for the treatment involving adaptive traders, the only one that matters is subjects’ ability to coordinate elements into structures.
關聯 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol.91, pp.409-440
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2017.12.008
dc.contributor 經濟學系 ; 心理學系-
dc.creator (作者) 陳樹衡; 楊立行zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Chen, Shu-Heng; Yang, Lee-Xieng; Tai, Chung-Chingen_US
dc.date (日期) 2018-06-
dc.date.accessioned 30-Jan-2018 15:18:40 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 30-Jan-2018 15:18:40 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 30-Jan-2018 15:18:40 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/115655-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Our goal in this paper is to understand how heterogeneity in people’s cognitive ability leads to different market behavior, and thus different market performance. To do this, subjects with heterogeneous working memory capacity (WMC) were placed in a double-auction environment to compete against artificial traders. We considered two treatments which differ in the artificial traders. The artificial traders are truth-telling in the first treatment, but demonstrate adaptive trading behavior in the second one. Our results show that working memory capacity has a significantly positive effect on subjects’ market performance, and the performance gap caused by cognitive ability, while narrowing over time, remains significant by the end of experiment. We find that differences in subjects’ performance resulted from their behavior: high-WMC subjects were better at exploiting extra profit opportunities and avoiding unprofitable transactions, and they tended to underbid more than those with lower WMC. Among the five constituent abilities of WMC, we find that it is distinctive abilities which contribute to the overall significance in these two treatments. For the treatment involving truth-telling traders, the relevant factor is the ability of simultaneous processing and storing information; whereas, for the treatment involving adaptive traders, the only one that matters is subjects’ ability to coordinate elements into structures.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol.91, pp.409-440-
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Cognitive ability ; Working memory capacity ; Double auction markets ; Bidding behavior ; Earnings performance ; Artificial tradersen_US
dc.title (題名) Cognitive ability and earnings performance: Evidence from double auction market experimentsen_US
dc.type (資料類型) article-
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1016/j.jedc.2017.12.008-
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2017.12.008-