Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72002 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 489
Publisher: 
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, Baltimore, MD
Abstract: 
We explore the evolution of the structure and performance of a social network in a population of individuals who search for local optima in diverse and dynamic task environments. Individuals choose whether to innovate or imitate and, in the latter case, from whom to learn. The probabilities of these possible actions respond to an individual's past experiences using reinforcement learning. Among some of our more interesting findings is that a population's performance is not monotonically increasing in either the reliability of the communication network or the productivity of innovation.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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