Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?
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Note: Published in Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, Vol. 60, pp. 129-146.
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- Johansson-Stenman, Olof & Martinsson, Peter, 2006. "Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 60(2), pages 129-146, June.
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Status; environmental concern; self-deception; self-image; preference falsification;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2004-09-05 (Business Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2004-09-05 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2004-09-05 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-RES-2004-09-05 (Resource Economics)
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