Cautious trend-seeking and complex asset price dynamics

Research in Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-79

  Franke, Reiner ^a   Sethi, Rajiv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Positive feedback traders; Speculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032020320     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/reec.1997.0157     Document Type: Article

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