TY - JOUR AU - Dow,James AU - Gorton,Gary TI - Noise Traders JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 12256 PY - 2006 Y2 - May 2006 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12256 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12256.pdf N1 - Author contact info: James Dow London Business School Sussex Place Regent's Park, London NW1 4SA UK Tel: 4402072625050 Ext3317 Fax: 4402077243317 E-Mail: jdow@london.edu Gary B. Gorton Yale School of Management 135 Prospect Street P.O. Box 208200 New Haven, CT 06520-8200 Fax: 203/432-8931 E-Mail: Gary.Gorton@yale.edu M2 - featured in NBER digest on 2006-05-29 AB - 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. ER -