Problem definition: The pandemic crisis made apparent the need to take a holistic view of production networks to understand risk factors that arise due to their many interdependent units. We investigate the structural factors contributing to the severity of cascading failures in production...

Despite the availability of multiple safe vaccines, vaccine hesitancy may present a challenge to successful control of the COVID-19 pandemic. As with many human behaviors, people’s vaccine acceptance may be affected by their beliefs about whether others will accept a vaccine(i.e., descriptive...

We study the computations that Bayesian agents undertake when exchanging opinions over a network. The agents act repeatedly on their private information and take myopic actions that maximize their expected utility according to a fully rational posterior belief. We show that such computations are...