Relative wealth, status-seeking, and catching-up

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 529-542

  Van Long, Ngo ^a   Shimomura, Koji ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catching up; Convergence; Relative wealth; Status seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346937509     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2002.11.003     Document Type: Article

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