Herding and clustering in economics: The Yule-Zipf-Simon model

Computational Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-134

  Garibaldi, U ^a   Costantini, D ^b   Donadio, S ^c   Viarengo, P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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EID: 33646591578     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-005-9018-y     Document Type: Article

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