Financial markets in the laboratory: An experimental analysis of some stylized facts

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 513-532

  Morone, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fat tail volatility clustering; Herd behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749152478     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697680701463786     Document Type: Article

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