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Noise traders are agents whose theoretical existence has been hypothesized as a way of solving certain fundamental problems in financial economics. We briefly review the literature on noise traders.
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Dow, J., Gorton, G. (2018). Noise Traders. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2309
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