Rational herding in financial economics

European Economic Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3-5, 1996, Pages 603-615

  Devenow, Andrea ^a   Welch, Ivo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascades; Coordination; Herding; Imitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001138987     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-2921(95)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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