TY - BOOK AU - Vives,Xavier TI - Information and learning in markets: the impact of market microstructure SN - 9780691145969 U1 - 332.642 PY - 2008/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Stock exchanges N2 - The ways financial analysts, traders, and other specialists use information and learn from each other are of fundamental importance to understanding how markets work and prices are set. This graduate-level textbook analyzes how markets aggregate information and examines the impacts of specific market arrangements - or microstructure - on the aggregation process and overall performance of financial markets. Xavier Vives bridges the gap between the two primary views of markets-informational efficiency and herding - and uses a coherent game-theoretic framework to bring together the latest results from the rational expectations and herding literatures ER -