We study social learning in a social network setting where agents receive independent noisy signals about the truth …

comparable to themselves to be the most persuasive. Incorporating communication dynamics can take the influential social learning … networks are recognized as the most credible source of information about new technologies. We incorporate social learning in … communicator influences learning and adoption. Farmers find communicators who face agricultural conditions and constraints most …

Learning is crucial to organizational decision making but often needs to be delegated. We examine a dynamic delegation … the principal, privately learns the profitability over time and communicates to the principal. We formulate learning … delegation as a dynamic mechanism design problem and characterize the optimal delegation scheme. We show that private learning …