When are adaptive expectations rational? A generalization

Economics Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-6

  Shepherd, Ben ^a  

^a Developing Trade Consultants Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive expectations; Kalman filter; Rational expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455177926     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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