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Sushil Bikhchandani

Sushil Bikhchandani

· Professor of Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management; Professor of Strategy; Howard Noble Chair in Management

University of California, Los Angeles · Accounting

Active 1986–2026

h-index41
Citations21.1k
Papers15522 last 5y
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Sushil Bikhchandani is a Professor of Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management, as well as a Professor of Strategy, holding the Howard Noble Chair in Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He has been teaching at UCLA Anderson since 1985. His research interests include auctions, market institutions, herd behavior, and decision making. He has published widely cited work on informational cascades, and his articles on topics such as auctions, bargaining, and decision theory have appeared in numerous professional journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, and Operations Research.

Research topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Science
  • Psychology
  • Social psychology
  • Engineering
  • Knowledge management
  • Data science
  • Physics
  • Cognitive science

Selected publications

  • Information Cascades and Social Learning

    Journal of Economic Literature · 2024-09-01 · 54 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    Social learning is the updating of beliefs based on observation of others. Such observation can lead to efficient aggregation of information, but also to inaccurate decisions, fragility of mass behaviors, and, in the case of information cascades, to complete blockage of learning. We review the theory of information cascades and social learning and discuss important themes, insights, and applications of this literature as it has developed over the last 30 years. We also highlight open questions a…

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  • The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information

    RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2014-01-01 · 29 citations

    preprint1st authorCorresponding

    There has been explosive progress in the economic theory of uncertainty and information in the past few decades. This subject is now taught not only in departments of economics but also in professional schools and programs oriented toward business, government and administration, and public policy. This book attempts to unify the subject matter in a simple, accessible manner. Part I of the book focuses on the economics of uncertainty; Part II examines the economics of information. This revised an…

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  • Auctions With Resale Markets: A Model of Treasury Bill Auctions

    DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2019-02-12 · 20 citations

    bookOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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  • Information Cascades and Social Learning

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 14 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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  • Decreasing Marginal Value of Information Under Symmetric Loss

    Decision Analysis · 2013-09-01 · 11 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    We investigate conditions under which the value of additional information is diminishing in a setting where the decision maker has access to multiple, identically-distributed, information signals. The signals are assumed to be independent conditional on an unknown payoff-relevant parameter. The decision maker minimizes a quadratic loss function. Quadratic losses arise in quality control, scoring rules, and other applications. We characterize two concepts of diminishing marginal value of informat…

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