Consensus and Disagreement: Information Aggregation under (Not So) Naive Learning
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- Abhijit Banerjee & Olivier Compte, 2022. "Consensus and Disagreement: Information Aggregation under (not so) Naive Learning," NBER Working Papers 29897, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Abhijit Banerjee & Olivier Compte, 2023. "Consensus and Disagreement: Information Aggregation under (not so) Naive Learning," Papers 2311.08256, arXiv.org.
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