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Cambridge Finance Workshop Series are usually held on Thursdays during term time. The workshops are an opportunity for those working in finance to present their latest results or papers.

Nobuyuki Hanaki

University of Nice

Title: An experimental analysis of the effect of Quantitative Easing (joint work with A. Penalver, E. Akiyama, Y. Funaki)

Abstract

In this paper we report the results of a repeated experiment in which a central bank buys bonds for cash in a quantitative easing (QE) operation in an otherwise standard asset market setting. The experiment is designed so that bonds have a constant fundamental value which is not affected by QE under rational expectations. By repeating the same experience three times, we investigate whether participants learn that prices should not rise above the fundamental price in the presence of QE (as found in. Penalver et al., 2017). We find that some groups do learn this but most do not, instead becoming more convinced that QE boosts bond prices.

These claims are based on significantly different behaviour of two treatment groups relative to a control group that doesn't have QE.

Date: 
Thursday, 8 February, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
Contact name: 
Kat Ndrepepaj
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01223768129
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Event location: 
Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
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