Learning to wait: A laboratory investigation

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1103-1124

  Oprea, Ryan ^a   Friedman, Daniel ^a   Anderson, Steven T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; INVESTMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; PREDICTION;

EID: 67549084575     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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