Consensus in Social Networks: Revisited

Steven Kivinen and Norovsambuu Tumennasan ()

Working Papers from Dalhousie University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We analyze the convergence of opinions or beliefs in a general social network with non-Bayesian agents. We provide a new sufficient condition under which opinions converge to consensus. Our condition is significantly more permissive than that of Lorenz (2005).

Keywords: Networks; Consensus; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2016-12-05
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