Bayesian learning in social networks

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1201-1236

  Acemoglu, Daron ^a   Dahleh, Munther A ^a   Lobel, Ilan ^b   Ozdaglar, Asuman ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herding; Information aggregation; Information cascades; Learning; Social networks

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MODEL TEST; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SOCIAL NETWORK; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80052243933     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdr004     Document Type: Article

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