Networks, Social Interactions, and Cultural Evolution

Social Transmission Bias and the Cultural Evolution of Folk Economic Beliefs,” David Hirshleifer and Siew Hong Teoh, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, forthcoming.
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Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving,” Bing Han and David Hirshleifer, June 2016.
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Social Transmission Bias and Investor Behavior,” Bing Han, David Hirshleifer, and  Johan Walden, October 2017.
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Thought and Behavior Contagion in Capital Markets,” David Hirshleifer and Siew Hong Teoh, Ch. 1 of Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution, Thorsten Hens and Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, eds., Handbooks in Finance series (William Ziemba, ed.), Elsevier/North-Holland, (2009):1-56.
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Information Cascades and Observational Learning,” Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, and Ivo Welch, September 2005.

Herd Behaviour and Cascading in Capital Markets: A Review and Synthesis,” David Hirshleifer and Siew Hong Teoh, European Financial Management, 9(1), (2003):25-66.

Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades,” Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, and Ivo Welch, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(3), Summer, (1998):151-170.

Informational Cascades and Social Conventions,” David Hirshleifer, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, May, (1998):23.
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A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades,” Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, and Ivo Welch, Journal of Political Economy, 100(5), October, (1992):992-1026.