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This paper investigates how social network and conformity dynamics shape the stability of inflation expectations and the dissemination of economic narratives. Using an agent-based macroeconomic simulation, I integrate a heuristic switching framework with an opinion dynamics mechanism to examine...
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The paper analyzes how the structure of social networks affects product diffusion and competition under different information regimes. Diffusion is modeled as the result of idiosyncratic adoption thresholds, local network effects, and information diffusion broadcasting and word-of mouth by...
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We model the spread of news as a social learning game on a network. Agents can either endorse or oppose a claim made in a piece of news, which itself may be either true or false. Agents base their decision on a private signal and their neighbors' past actions. Given these inputs, agents follow...
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Individuals can be slow to update beliefs and may respond to new information in idiosyncratic ways. This paper shows how an individual’s under-reaction to new information (for example, due to lack of attention) and idiosyncratic ways of responding to new information (due to over-reaction or...
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In this paper, we investigate the classical Axelrod model of cultural dissemination under an adaptive network framework. Unlike the original model, we place agents on a complex network, where they cut connections with any agent that does not share at least one cultural trait. This rewiring...
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