Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848–2009), we investigate whether …

We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and … naïvely update their beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of their neighbors’ opinions. A focus is on conditions … under which beliefs of all agents in large societies converge to the truth, despite their naïve updating. We show that this …

broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density matters. In contrast, homophily substantially slows learning based …

simultaneously. We propose a decentralized, completely uncoupled learning process in such environments that leads to stable and … mutually profitable. Matched agents occasionally experiment with higher bids if on the buy-side (or lower bids if on the sell … sell-side). This simple and intuitive learning process implements core allocations even though agents have no knowledge of …

the game is accomplished using such concepts as p-beliefs and p-dominant strategy (Monderer and Samet, 1989, and Morris …

results of a choice experiment carried out on a representative sample of the Emilia-Romagna population. Choice modelling …

R&D investments and deployment of infant technologies with large learning potential. The innovation benefits which this …