What do you want to know? Information acquisition and learning in experimental Cournot games

Research in Economics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Bigoni, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experiments; Information; Learning; Mouselab; Oligopoly

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749111399     PISSN: 10909443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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