Asset price bubbles and crashes with near-zero-intelligence traders

Economic Theory

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 537-563

  Duffy, John ^a   Ünver, M Utku ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Bubbles; Double auction; Experimental economics; Zero intelligence traders

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244396078     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-004-0570-9     Document Type: Article

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