Status goods : experimental evidence from platinum credit cards
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- Leonardo Bursztyn & Bruno Ferman & Stefano Fiorin & Martin Kanz & Gautam Rao, 2018. "Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 133(3), pages 1561-1595.
- Leonardo Bursztyn & Bruno Ferman & Stefano Fiorin & Martin Kanz & Gautam Rao, 2017. "Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards," NBER Working Papers 23414, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Gautam Rao & Leonardo Bursztyn & Stefano Fiorin & Bruno Ferman & Martin Kanz, 2016. "Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards," Working Paper 396916, Harvard University OpenScholar.
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Primary Metals; Inequality; Private Sector Economics; Marketing; Private Sector Development Law; Economic Growth; Industrial Economics; Economic Theory&Research;All these keywords.
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- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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