Imitation and luck: An experimental study on social sampling

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 461-502

  Offerman, Theo ^a   Schotter, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Risk; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 59249084981     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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