Near-rational expectations in animal spirits models of aggregate fluctuations

Economic Modelling

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 249-265

  Weder, Mark ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Business cycles; Indeterminacy; Rational expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742285211     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(03)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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