3 papers
econ.TH2026
The Fragility of Social Learning with Noisy Messages
Matthew O. Jackson, Suraj Malladi, David McAdams
We examine how agents learn when information from original sources only reaches them after noisy relay. A receiver learns if and only if they have access to sufficiently many chain…
econ.TH2025
Rediscovery
Martino Banchio, Suraj Malladi
We model search in settings where decision makers know what can be found but not where to find it. A searcher faces a set of choices arranged by an observable attribute. Each perio…
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-…