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The diffusion of innovations in social networks

We consider processes in which new technologies and forms of behavior are transmitted through social and geographic networks Agents adopt behaviors based on a combination of their inherent payoff and their local popularity (the number of neighbors who have adopted them) subject to some random error We characterize the long-run dynamics of such processes in terms of the geometry of the network but without placing a priori restrictions on the network structure When agents interact in sufficiently small close-knit groups the expected waiting time until almost everyone is playing the stochastically stable equilibrium is bounded above independently of the number of agents and independently of the initial state.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 437

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Innovationsdiffusion
Theorie
Soziales Netzwerk

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Young, H. Peyton
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics
(wo)
Baltimore, MD
(wann)
2000

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Young, H. Peyton
  • The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2000

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