Learning as a rational foundation for macroeconomics and finance

Rethinking Expectations: The Way Forward for Macroeconomics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 68-111

  Evans, George W ^a   Honkapohja, Seppo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Bank of Finland ^*  (United Kingdom)

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