Status, affluence, and inequality: rank-based comparisons in games of status
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Publication:1036584
DOI10.1016/j.geb.2009.02.004zbMath1188.91110MaRDI QIDQ1036584
Publication date: 13 November 2009
Published in: Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/8211905/HOPKINS_2009_Status_affluence_and_inequality.pdf
income inequality; conspicuous consumption; consumption externalities; first price auctions; status; dispersive orderings; relative standing; social competitiveness
91B62: Economic growth models
91B54: Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand)
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