We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and … general structural conditions on the social network that are sufficient for convergence to truth. In addition, we show how …

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model … then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent friendship networks. A novel social network …

-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an agent's social influence on the long-run group opinion is increasing in network … out that misrepresentation of opinions need not undermine wisdom, but may even enhance it. Given the network, we provide …

neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …

We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents in the United States. We develop a dynamic network formation model … criminal activities, they can be key players because they have a crucial position in the network in terms of betweenness …

connected and undirected network. Players observe their immediate neighbors' behavior only, but communicate over time the … repeated game's history truthfully throughout the network. The Folk Theorem extends to this setup, although for a range of … produces a network result; namely, the level of cooperation in this setup depends on the network's diameter, and not on its …

Imperfect private monitoring in an infinitely repeated discounted Prisoner's Dilemma played on a communication network …'s history throughout the network. The delay in receiving this information requires the players to be more patient to sustain the … same level of cooperation as in a complete network, although a Folk Theorem obtains when the players are patient enough …