A rational route to randomness

Econometrica

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1059-1095

  Brock, William A ^a   Hommes, Cars H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Business cycles; Cobweb model; Heterogeneous beliefs; Homoclinic bifurcations; Strange attractors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001288049     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2171879     Document Type: Article

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