Social Learning in Social Networks

This paper analyzes a model of social learning in a social network. Agents decide whether or not to adopt a new technology with unknown payoffs based on their prior beliefs and the experiences of their neighbors in the network. Using a mean-field approximation, we prove that the diffusion process al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamberson, Peter John
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Berkeley Electronic Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61411