Decoding social influence and the wisdom of the crowd in financial trading network

Proceedings - 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom/PASSAT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 203-209

  Pan, Wei ^a   Altshuler, Yaniv ^a   Pentland, Alex ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd Wisdom; Financial Trading; Influence; Social Network

Indexed keywords

CROWD WISDOM; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; FINANCIAL TRADING; FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING; INFLUENCE; SOCIAL FEEDBACKS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WISDOM OF THE CROWDS;

COMMERCE; DYNAMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84873623812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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