We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … models of social learning to investigate the micro-level mechanisms. We find that overconfidence and conservatism contribute …

suggests a trade-off of using coarser versus finer representations of the strategy set when it comes to learning. …

broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density matters. In contrast, homophily substantially slows learning based … friendship networks from the Adolescent Health dataset. -- Networks ; Learning ; Diffusion ; Homophily ; Friendships ; Social … Networks ; Random Graphs ; Mixing Time ; Convergence ; Speed of Learning ; Speed of Convergence …