Solving finite mixture models: Efficient computation in economics under serial and parallel execution

Computational Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 343-379

  Ferrall, Christopher ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous agent models; Numerical optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144464545     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-005-6413-3     Document Type: Article

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