Aggregate information cascades

Antonio Guarino, Heike Harmgart () and Steffen Huck

Games and Economic Behavior, 2011, vol. 73, issue 1, 167-185

Abstract: We introduce a new model of aggregate information cascades where only one of two possible actions is observable to others. Agents make a binary decision in sequence. The order is random and agents are not aware of their own position in the sequence. When called upon, they are only informed about the total number of others who have chosen the observable action before them. This informational structure arises naturally in many applications. Our most important result is that only one type of cascade arises in equilibrium, the aggregate cascade on the observable action. A cascade on the unobservable action never arises.

Keywords: Social; learning; Information; cascades; Information; aggregation; Herd; behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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