Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities
Quanbo Zha, Gang Kou, Hengjie Zhang, Haiming Liang, Xia Chen, Cong‐Cong Li, Yucheng Dong
Abstract
Abstract Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation. At present, the opinion dynamics models have been extensively studied in differrent fields. This paper provides a review of opinion dynamics in finance and business, such as, finance, marketing, e-commerce, politics, and group decision making. Furthermore, identified research challenges have been proposed to promote the future research of this topic.
Topics & Concepts
Dynamics (music)Popular opinionPoliticsEconomicsPolitical scienceSociologyLawMedia studiesPedagogyOpinion Dynamics and Social InfluenceComplex Network Analysis TechniquesComplex Systems and Time Series Analysis