What have we learned from social learning?

European Economic Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3-5, 1996, Pages 617-628

  Gale, Douglas ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascades; Delay; Information; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001485455     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-2921(95)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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