Expectations and bubbles in asset pricing experiments

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-133

  Hommes, Cars ^a   Sonnemans, Joep ^a   Tuinstra, Jan ^a   van de Velden, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen   (Netherlands Antilles)

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Expectations; Experimental economics; Speculative bubbles

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649155847     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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