Learning from private and public observations of others' actions

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 910-940

  Amador, Manuel ^a,b   Weill, Pierre Olivier ^b,c,d  

^a Landau Economics Building ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information aggregation; Learning; Value of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859441088     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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