Reflexivity, expectations feedback and almost self-fulfilling equilibria: Economic theory, empirical evidence and laboratory experiments

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 406-419

  Hommes, Cars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

expectation feedback; experimental macroeconomics; heuristic switching model; self fulfilling beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892710989     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2013.859426     Document Type: Article

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