The authors consider a sequential decision model in which entrepreneurs decide on whether to enter a potential new market. Individual entrepreneurs have private expectations about the new market's viability. Over time, they learn about its viability from their own experience as well as that of...

When payoffs from different actions are unknown, agents use their own past experience as well as the experience of their neighbors to guide their decision making. In this paper, the authors develop a general framework to study the relationship between the structure of these neighborhoods and the...

The authors study learning in organizations comprised of short-lived agents with heterogeneous beliefs. It is shown that the sequence of actions converges in probability to the set of ex-post optimal actions. Under some identifiability conditions, beliefs also converge in probability to point...