Learning by experience and learning by imitating successful others

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 559-575

  Offerman, Theo ^a   Sonnemans, Joep ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

C91; D81; Expectations; Experiments; Imitation; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000467692     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(97)00109-1     Document Type: Article

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