Levy, Gilat and Razin, Ronny (2018) Information diffusion in networks with the Bayesian Peer Influence heuristic. Games and Economic Behavior, 109. pp. 262-270. ISSN 0899-8256
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Abstract
Repeated communication in networks is often considered to impose large information requirements on individuals, and for that reason, the literature has resorted to use heuristics, such as DeGroot's, to compute how individuals update beliefs. In this paper we propose a new heuristic which we term the Bayesian Peer Influence (BPI) heuristic. The BPI accords with Bayesian updating for all (conditionally) independent information structures. More generally, the BPI can be used to analyze the effects of correlation neglect on communication in networks. We analyze the evolution of beliefs and show that the limit is a simple extension of the BPI and parameters of the network structure. We also show that consensus in society might change dynamically, and that beliefs might become polarized. These results contrast with those obtained in papers that have used the DeGroot heuristic
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/games-and-econom... |
Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier © CC-BY-NC-ND |
Divisions: | Economics |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2018 14:04 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2024 00:48 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86554 |
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