Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities

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.

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Opinion dynamics in finance and business have been extensively explored, demonstrating its significance in various fields. Identified research challenges include how to effectively apply opinion dynamics models to address practical issues in the future.