Revisiting individual evolutionary learning in the cobweb model - An illustration of the virtual spite-effect

Computational Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 333-354

  Arifovic, Jasmina ^a   Maschek, Michael K ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Individual learning; Robustness; Social learning; Spite effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845890586     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-006-9053-3     Document Type: Article

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