On relative wealth effects and the optimality of growth

Economics Letters

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-92

  Corneo, Giacomo ^a   Jeanne, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Endogenous growth; Optimality of growth; Status seeking behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031287018     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(96)00940-8     Document Type: Article

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