Informational cascades in the laboratory: Do they occur for the right reasons?

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 661-671

  Huck, Steffen ^a   Oechssler, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

2343; Bayes' rule; C9; D8; Experiments; Informational cascades

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042229379     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(00)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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