Conformism and diversity under social learning

Economic Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 101-120

  Bala, Venkatesh ^a   Goyal, Sanjeev ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformism diversity; Local interactions; Networks; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529084     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00004094     Document Type: Article

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