Dynamics of information exchange in endogenous social networks

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-97

  Acemoglu, Daron ^a   Bimpikis, Kostas ^b   Ozdaglar, Asuman ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information aggregation; Learning; Search; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893432148     PISSN: 19336837     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/TE1204     Document Type: Article

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