2 papers
econ.TH2020
Nash SIR: An Economic-Epidemiological Model of Strategic Behavior During a Viral Epidemic
David McAdams
This paper develops a Nash-equilibrium extension of the classic SIR model of infectious-disease epidemiology ("Nash SIR"), endogenizing people's decisions whether to engage in econ…
physics.soc-ph2018
Learning through the Grapevine: The Impact of Noise and the Breadth and Depth of Social Networks
Matthew O. Jackson, Suraj Malladi, David McAdams
We examine how well people learn when information is noisily relayed from person to person; and we study how communication platforms can improve learning without censoring or fact-…