The market organism: Long-run survival in markets with heterogeneous traders

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1023-1035

  Blume, Lawrence ^a,b,c   Easley, David ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

General equilibrium; Market selection hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749129314     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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