Evolutionary selection of individual expectations and aggregate outcomes in asset pricing experiments

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 35-64

  Anufriev, Mikhail ^a   Hommes, Cars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84872181961     PISSN: 19457669     EISSN: 19457685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mic.4.4.35     Document Type: Article

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