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Adaptive Expectations

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The adaptive expectations hypothesis may be stated most succinctly in the form of the equation:

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Parkin, M. (2018). Adaptive Expectations. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_593

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