How effectively do people learn from a variety of different opinions?

Experimental Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 386-416

  Healy, Andrew ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental economics; Information aggregation; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350741396     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-009-9220-1     Document Type: Article

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