Non-Bayesian social learning

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 210-225

  Jadbabaie, Ali ^a   Molavi, Pooya ^a   Sandroni, Alvaro ^b   Tahbaz Salehi, Alireza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Information aggregation; Learning; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864323717     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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