I present a new model of optimal dynamic pricing and diffusion of a network good sold by a monopolist. The good in this model is a social network good in that each consumer’s value of the good within a social network increases as more of her neighbors use the good. In each period, the...

Hierarchy plays an integral role in organizational structure and practices, as well as in society more generally. In Confucian-influenced cultures, and especially in South Korea, social hierarchies are often based on age, and age dynamics can therefore influence social decision-making and...

We examine the optimal intervention of an influence designer in the presence of social learning in a network. Before learning begins, a designer implants opinions into the network to make agents' ultimate opinions as close as to target opinions. By decomposing the influence matrix, which...