Pathological outcomes of observational learning

Econometrica

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 371-398

  Smith, Lones ^a   Sørensen, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cascades; Informational herding; Markov process; Martingale; Stochastic stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000053260     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00113     Document Type: Article

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