Computational complexity and information asymmetry in financial products

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 101-107

  Arora, Sanjeev ^a   Barak, Boaz ^b   Brunnermeier, Markus ^b   Ge, Rong ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; FINANCIAL PRODUCTS; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; INTEGER-N; NP COMPLETE PROBLEMS; UNEMPLOYMENT RATES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; FRUITS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 79955416334     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1941487.1941511     Document Type: Article

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