@techreport{NBERw12256, title = "Noise Traders", author = "James Dow and Gary Gorton", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "12256", year = "2006", month = "May", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w12256", abstract = {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. The is an entry for The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (Palgrave Macmillan: New York), edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, forthcoming in 2008.}, }