The benefits of social influence in optimized cultural markets.

Social influence has been shown to create significant unpredictability in cultural markets, providing one potential explanation why experts routinely fail at predicting commercial success of cultural products. As a result, social influence is often presented in a negative light. Here, we show the be...

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Main Authors: Andrés Abeliuk, Gerardo Berbeglia, Manuel Cebrian, Pascal Van Hentenryck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4382093?pdf=render