Herd behavior and the quality of opinions

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 661-673

  Teraji, Shinji ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Equilibrium selection; Herd behavior; Opinions; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842303669     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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