A microfounded herding model and its estimation on German survey expectations

European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-328

  Franke, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal spirits; Herding dynamics; Ifo and ZEW climate index; Individual transition probabilities; Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956570391     PISSN: 20527764     EISSN: 20527772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4337/ejeep.2008.02.10     Document Type: Article

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