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We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and …
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connection between Menger's 19th century theory of goods and 20th century learning theories is established. The problem of how to … features. For this purpose, Carl Menger's theory of goods is taken as a starting point. Whereas economists after the … 'marginalistic revolution' were almost exclusively concerned with the determinants of exchange value and developing price theory …
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We present a model of opinion formation where individuals repeatedly engage in discussion and update their opinion in a social network similarly to the DeGroot model. Abstracting from the standard assumption that individuals always report their opinion truthfully, agents in our model interact...
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This paper investigates opinion dynamics and social influence in directed communication networks. We study the theoretical properties of a boundedly rational model of opinion formation in which individuals aggregate the information they receive from their neighbors by using weights that are a...
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broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density matters. In contrast, homophily substantially slows learning based …
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multiplex network who deal with coordination issues using social learning and payoff-driven dynamics. Agents form their … heterogeneous preference through learning on one layer and they play a pure coordination game on the other layer. People learn from …. We find that the presence of the social learning mechanism explains the rising and the endurance of a segregated society …
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This paper investigates the influence of physical attractiveness on cooperative behavior. We survey data from 211 episodes of a television game show and combine it with independent facial attractiveness ratings of the show's contestants. The final of the show represents a simultaneous one-shot...
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Kirzner defines the entrepreneurial function. In order to better understand his theory, we posit Kirzner's notion of an …
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Our study analyzes theories of learning for strategic interactions in networks. Participants played two of the 2 x 2 … order shown by Selten and Chmura. This result supports our view that learning in networks is different from learning in …
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