Real-time decentralized information processing as a model of organizations with boundedly rational agents

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 633-658

  Van Zandt, Timothy ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000100709     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-937X.00101     Document Type: Article

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