Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities

Quanbo Zha (), Gang Kou (), Hengjie Zhang (), Haiming Liang (), Xia Chen (), Cong-Cong Li () and Yucheng Dong ()
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Quanbo Zha: School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University
Gang Kou: School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Hengjie Zhang: Business School, Hohai University
Haiming Liang: Center for Network Big Data and Decision-Making, Business School, Sichuan University
Xia Chen: Center for Network Big Data and Decision-Making, Business School, Sichuan University
Cong-Cong Li: School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University
Yucheng Dong: Center for Network Big Data and Decision-Making, Business School, Sichuan University

Financial Innovation, 2020, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Abstract Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation. At present, the opinion dynamics models have been extensively studied in differrent fields. This paper provides a review of opinion dynamics in finance and business, such as, finance, marketing, e-commerce, politics, and group decision making. Furthermore, identified research challenges have been proposed to promote the future research of this topic.

Keywords: Opinion dynamics; Financial market; Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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