Inattention and belief polarization

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2018.12.007zbMath1419.91562OpenAlexW2907823955WikidataQ128651662 ScholiaQ128651662MaRDI QIDQ1729674

Kristoffer P. Nimark, Savitar Sundaresan

Publication date: 28 February 2019

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/67718

zbMATH Keywords

beliefspolarizationdisagreementrational inattentionfilter bubblesrational Bayesian agents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) History, political science (91F10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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