Strategic Learning and the Topology of Social Networks

Econometrica

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1755-1794

  Mossel, Elchanan ^a   Sly, Allan ^b   Tamuz, Omer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation of information; Informational externalities; Social learning; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943370147     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA12058     Document Type: Article

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