How Do Behavioral Assumptions Affect Structural Inference? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-79

  Houser, Daniel ^a   Winter, Joachim ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discounting; Heterogeneity; Heuristics; Rational expectations; Search; Statistical classification algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742289068     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500103288619386     Document Type: Article

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