Belief change and spread have been studied in many disciplines—from psychology,
sociology, economics and philosophy, to biology, computer science and statistical physics …

Risks in globally interconnected socio-environmental systems are complex: trade, migration,
climate phenomena such as El Niño, and other processes can both redistribute and …

Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals,
the news media being a prime example. This article provides experimental evidence that …

News reports and communication are inherently constrained by space, time, and attention.
As a result, news sources often condition the decision of whether to share a piece of …

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks represents the frontier of research into
how and why networks they form, how they influence behavior, how they help govern …

The paper presents a survey on selected models of opinion dynamics. Both discrete (more
precisely, binary) opinion models as well as continuous opinion models are discussed. We …

We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly
rational agents update opinions by averaging over their neighbors' expressed opinions, but …

This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks in Austria.
We exploit a field experiment that varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …

This chapter surveys the implications of some studies in network economics research for
economic development. We focus on information flow and risk-sharing—two topics where …

The study of social networks has become an important part of the economics tool kit.
Modeling agents as independent actors misses the countless ways in which actions are …