Social learning in market games

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 632-652

  Altavilla, Carlo ^a   Luini, Luigi ^b   Sbriglia, Patrizia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cournot and Bertrand experiments; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751552228     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2004.07.012     Document Type: Article

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