Fragile beliefs and the price of uncertainty

Quantitative Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-162

  Hansen, Lars Peter ^a   Sargent, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' law; Learning; Pessimism; Prices of risk; Risk sensitivity; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956310829     PISSN: 17597323     EISSN: 17597331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/QE9     Document Type: Article

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