Word-of-mouth learning

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-22

  Banerjee, Abhijit ^a   Fudenberg, Drew ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herding; Imitation; Social learning; Word of mouth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346401344     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-8256(03)00048-4     Document Type: Article

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