Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status
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- 1 January 2003
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We investigate consumer choice where individuals care not only about the absolute values of consumption, but also about their status. This is defined as their oKeywords
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