Going Public and the Sale of Shares with Heterogeneous Investors: Agent-Based Computational Modelling and Computer Simulations

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 423-470

  Panzarasa, Pietro ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Norman, Timothy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling and simulation; Initial public offering; Ownership structure; Sale of shares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035631744     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011871430501     Document Type: Article

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