The heterogeneous expectations hypothesis: Some evidence from the lab

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-24

  Hommes, Cars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Heterogeneous expectations; Heuristics switching; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549243687     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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