Steinbacher, Mitja; Steinbacher, Matjaž; Knoppe, Clemens - In: Computational Economics 64 (2023) 2, pp. 735-768
The paper reexamines an agent-based model of opinion formation under bounded confidence with heterogeneous agents. The paper is novel in that it extends the standard model of opinion dynamics with the assumption that interacting agents share the desire to exchange opinion. In particular, the...