Information Percolation

Darrell Duffie, Gaston Giroux and Gustavo Manso

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, vol. 2, issue 1, 100-111

Abstract: We study the "percolation" of information of common interest through a large market as agents encounter and reveal information to each other over time. We provide an explicit solution for the dynamics of the cross-sectional distribution of posterior beliefs. We also show that convergence of the cross-sectional distribution of beliefs to a common posterior is exponential and that the rate of convergence does not depend on the size of the groups of agents that meet. The rate of convergence is merely the mean rate at which an individual agent is matched. (JEL D83)

JEL-codes: D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
Note: DOI: 10.1257/mic.2.1.100
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