The heterogeneous expectations hypothesis: Some evidence from the lab

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Publication date 2011
Journal Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control
Volume | Issue number 35 | 1
Pages (from-to) 1-24
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  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract This paper surveys learning-to-forecast experiments (LtFEs) with human subjects to test theories of expectations and learning. Subjects must repeatedly forecast a market price, whose realization is an aggregation of individual expectations. Emphasis is given to how individual forecasting rules interact at the micro-level and which structure they cocreate at the aggregate, macro-level. In particular, we focus on the question wether the evidence from laboratory experiments is consistent with heterogeneous expectations.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2010.10.003
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