About
This virtual seminar series is dedicated to experimental academic research in digital financial markets, broadly construed. Our goal is to bring together researchers from finance, economics, psychology, and computer science who use experimental methods — including lab experiments, field experiments, or randomized controlled trials — to study questions at the intersection of technology and finance.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- The impact of financial technology on investor behavior
- Experiments in market microstructure
- Experiments in decentralized finance
- Experiments on digital currencies
- Experiments on AI or AI-human interaction
Next Seminars
Cognitive Abilities and Individual Earnings in Hybrid Continuous Double Auctions
Sarah Zhang, Alliance Manchester Business School
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · 9:00 AM MT
We study the influence of cognitive abilities, in particular reaction time, trader intuition (Theory of Mind), and cognitive reflection abilities, on human participants' individual earnings when competing alongside algorithmic traders in continuous double auctions. In balanced markets, where each human trader has an algorithmic trader clone with the same valuations or costs, faster human reaction time significantly improves trading performance, while Theory of Mind can be detrimental to human trading performance, particularly for sellers. For unbalanced markets with humans and algorithmic traders on opposite sides of the market, the effects of cognitive abilities depend on trader role as well as agent presence and speed, highlighting the influence of market balance and agent presence and speed on trading success and earnings.
Fake News in Social Networks
Matthias Weber, University of St. Gallen
Monday, October 5, 2026 · 9:00 AM MT
Pump and Dump: Price Manipulation in Experimental Markets
Mehmet Saglam, University of Cincinnati
Monday, October 26, 2026 · 9:00 AM MT
Human-AI Collaboration in Corporate Valuation: Experimental Evidence with a Valuation AI Agent
Miao Liu, Boston College
Monday, November 9, 2026 · 9:00 AM MT
Delegating to Your Better Self: AI, Algorithms, and Moral Preferences
Julia Rose, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Monday, November 23, 2026 · 9:00 AM MT
Allocative Efficiency and Mispricing in Automated Market Maker (AMM) and Continuous Double Auction (CDA) Markets
Isabel Walcher, University of Graz
Monday, November 30, 2026 · 9:00 AM MT
Determinants of Accepting New Payment Technologies: The Case of Crypto-Wallets
Steve Heinke, University of Fribourg
Monday, December 7, 2026 · 9:00 AM MT
AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications
Taha Choukhmane, MIT
Monday, March 1, 2027 · 9:00 AM MT
Commentary Incentives and Asset Bubbles: Evidence from Learning-to-Forecast Experiments
Yilong Xu, Utrecht University
Monday, March 15, 2027 · 9:00 AM MT
Sometimes You Know They Are There, Sometimes You Don't. When Does Algorithmic Trading Matter?
Sandrine Jacob-Leal, ESSCA
Monday, April 5, 2027 · 9:00 AM MT
Recent Seminar
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SEF North American Conference 2027
The Society for Experimental Finance invites submissions for its North American conference in Salt Lake City.
Call for Papers
We invite submissions on a rolling basis for the seminar series, launching in Fall 2026.
Please submit your paper along with an updated CV to info@fintechexperiments.science.
We particularly encourage submissions from early career researchers.
Format
Virtually via Zoom
Open to everyone45-minute presentation
+ 15-minute discussion and Q&AMondays at 9:00 AM MST
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