Opinion Dynamics and Learning in Social Networks

We provide an overview of recent research on belief and opinion dynamics in social networks. We discuss both Bayesian and non-Bayesian models of social learning and focus on the implications of the form of learning (e.g., Bayesian vs. non-Bayesian), the sources of information (e.g., observation v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Ozdaglar, Asuman E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61795
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491