Relative Consumption Concerns or Non-Monotonic Preferences?
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Keywords
status consumption; social status; behavioral economics; other-regarding preferences;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2013-01-07 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2013-01-07 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2013-01-07 (Experimental Economics)
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