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<journal-id>1870-4115</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista pueblos y fronteras digital]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. pueblos front. digit.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1870-4115</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y la Frontera Sur]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1870-41152010000100004</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2010.9.158</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Choice and non-coordination behavior in a global and local information setting: a computational approach]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Valdivia López]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Marcos]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2010</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2010</year>
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<volume>5</volume>
<numero>9</numero>
<fpage>4</fpage>
<lpage>42</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1870-41152010000100004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1870-41152010000100004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1870-41152010000100004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This paper studies conformity effects on individual choice when both local and global information are present. A standard discrete choice model that incorporates the social interaction effect to assign choice probabilities to agents is studied. The model is analyzed by using computational simulations. Agents are dispersed in a two dimensional toroidal lattice and they can gather information either from their von Neumann neighbors or from the whole community of agents. Agent heterogeneity is introduced through diversity in private incentives among agents. The main results of the simulations show that the effects of global and local information can produce conflicting informational data streams in agents, making it likely that unstable and volatile aggregate choice emerges. Likewise, the results indicate that the interaction between global and local information affects the shape of the distribution of the size of informational cascades.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Esta investigación analiza los efectos de conformidad en las decisiones de los individuos en un contexto en donde los agentes económicos acceden a información global y local. Un modelo de decisión discreta que incorpora el efecto de interacción social es analizado por medio de simulaciones computacionales. Los agentes bajo estudio están dispersos en una cuadrícula de dos dimensiones en donde recolectan información ya sea a partir de sus vecinos von Neumann o de la comunidad entera de agentes. La heterogeneidad es introducida a partir de la diversidad en los incentivos privados de los agentes. Los principales resultados de las simulaciones indican que los efectos de la información global y local pueden producir flujos informativos conflictivos para la toma de decisiones, de tal forma que el comportamiento agregado de decisión de los agentes emerge como volátil e inestable. Asimismo, los resultados indican que la interacción entre información global y local afecta la forma de la distribución del tamaño de las cascadas informativas.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[interacciones sociales]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[modelos computacionales]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[externalidades]]></kwd>
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