Learning and complementarities in speculative attacks

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 263-292

  Goldstein, Itay ^a   Ozdenoren, Emre ^b   Yuan, Kathy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coordination; Currency attacks; Feedback effect; Financial markets; Global games; Heterogenous information; Learning; Strategic complementarities

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; COMPLEMENTARITY; CURRENCY; FINANCIAL MARKET; HETEROGENEITY; LEARNING; MODELING;

EID: 79953308871     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdq017     Document Type: Article

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