Social learning through endogenous information acquisition: An experiment

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1525-1548

  Çelen, Boǧaçhan ^a   Hyndman, Kyle ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Herd Behavior; Information Acquisition; Link Formation; Social Learning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DECISION PROBLEMS; HERD BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; INFORMATIVENESS; KEY FEATURE; LINK FORMATION; PRIVATE INFORMATION; SOCIAL LEARNING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COSTS; EXPERIMENTS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84865504644     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1506     Document Type: Article

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