I know you know he or she knows we know you know they know: Common knowledge and the unpredictability of informational cascades

Political Complexity: Nonlinear Models of Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-173

  Lohmann, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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