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Individual expectations and aggregate behavior in learning to forecast experiments

Models with heterogeneous interacting agents explain macro phenomena through interactions at the micro level. We propose genetic algorithms as a model for individual expectations to explain aggregate market phenomena. The model explains all stylized facts observed in aggregate price fluctuations and individual forecasting behaviour in recent learning to forecast laboratory experiments with human subjects (Hommes et al. 2007), simultaneously and across different treatments.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1466

Classification
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Expectations; Speculations
Subject
Learning
heterogeneous expectations
genetic algorithms
experimental economics
Erwartungstheorie
Lernprozess
Test
Genetischer Algorithmus
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hommes, Cars
Lux, Thomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(where)
Kiel
(when)
2008

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Hommes, Cars
  • Lux, Thomas
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Time of origin

  • 2008

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