Commodity cycles, a function of market complexity? Extending the cobweb experiment

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 321-334

  Arango, Santiago ^a,b   Moxnes, Erling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Cobweb markets; Commodity cycles; Complexity; Cournot markets; Experimental economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869507241     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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