Learning from the expectations of others

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-377

  Granato, Jim ^a   Guse, Eran A ^b   Wong, M C Sunny ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Cobweb model; Expectational stability; Heterogeneous expectations; Information diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649094219     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100507070186     Document Type: Article

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