Keeping up with the ageing Joneses

DOI10.1016/J.JEDC.2008.04.010MaRDI QIDQ2271606zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter H. Fisher, Ben J. Heijdra

Publication date 7 August 2009

Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.502.8474

zbMATH Keywords

demographic shocksoverlapping generationsrelative consumption

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42) Linearizations (93B18)

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• The relative income hypothesis

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