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1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-394) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Part I. Social learning : 2. Bayesian tools : The bayesian framework ; Binary and Gaussian information ; Private signals and beliefs ; Martingales -- 3. Social learning with a common memory : A canonical model of social learning ; Efficient learning ; Observation noise ; Extensions -- 4. Cascades and herds : The basic model of herding ; The standard model with bounded beliefs ; The convergence of beliefs ; Herds and the slow convergence of beliefs ; Pricing the informational externality ; Crashes and booms -- 5. Limited memories : The sequential model with sampling ; The welfare-improving principle ; Sampling in a very large population ; Social learning or sampling in a large population? -- 6. Delays : The simplest model ; A general model with heterogeneous beliefs ; Properties -- 7. More delays : The length of a period ; Continuous times ; Buildup of private information ; Observation of payoffs -- 8. Outcomes : Incomplete learning ; The determinant of economic success: luck or effort? ; Complete learning with a diversity of private beliefs -- 9. Networks and diffusion : Optimization and diffusion of innovations ; Learning in networks -- 10. Words : Advice by one expert ; Larger sets of states and messages ; Panel of experts ; The receiver does not make the evaluation -- Part II. Coordination : 11. Guessing to coordinate : Overview ; Eductive stability in a standard market ; Strategic complementarities ; Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate -- 12. Learning to coordinate : A distribution with a cluster ; Observation noise -- 13. Delays and payoff externalities : Strategic substitutability ; Strategic complementaries -- Part III. Financial herding : 14.l Sequences of financial trades : Learning in the model of Glosten and Milgrom ; Herds ; Avalanches ; Herding in auctions -- 15. Gaussian financial markets : Actions in the CARA-Gauss model ; Markets ; The convergence of beliefs ; Multiple equilibria, crashes, and booms -- 16. Financial frenzies : Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate ; Information delays in financial markets ; The crash of a bubble. |
| Summary |
This book is the first in the exciting new field of social learning. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social learning.
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Social learning. |
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Social learning -- Mathematical models.
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Mathematical models. |
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Decision making.
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Decision making. |
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Collective behavior.
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Collective behavior. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Economic models of social learning |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Chamley, Christophe. Rational herds. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2004 052182401X 052153092X (DLC) 2003046180 (OCoLC)51944425 |
| ISBN |
0511165978 (electronic book) |
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9780511165979 (electronic book) |
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0511165382 (electronic book) |
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9780511165382 (electronic book) |
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9780511616372 (electronic book) |
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0511616376 (electronic book) |
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9780511164828 (electronic book) |
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0511164823 (electronic book) |
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1280437545 |
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9781280437540 |
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9786610437542 |
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6610437548 |
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9780511164026 |
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0511164025 |
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9780521824019 |
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052182401X |
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9780521530927 |
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052153092X |
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