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On The Absorbability Of Herd Behaviour And Informational Cascades: An Experimental Analysis

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Morone, Andrea
Fiore, Annamaria
Sandri, Serena

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A theory is said to be fully absorbable whenever its own acceptance by all of the individuals belonging to a certain population does not question its predictive validity. This accounts for strategic equilibria and can be related to the logic underlying convergence of behaviour and intentional herding in sequential games. This paper discusses the absorbability of informational cascades’ theory by bounded rational decision-makers and analyses whether providing individuals with theoretic information on informational cascades affects overall probability of herding phenomena to occur as well as whether an incorrect cascade can be reversed because of bounded rational adapting of the theory’s prescriptive.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 6884.

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Keywords: Theory absorption; Herd behaviour; Informational cascades.;

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D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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