Economic growth and status-seeking through personal wealth

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 407-427

  Cuong Pham, Thi Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Endogenous fiscal policy; Endogenous growth; Status seeking; Wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844374352     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. R. Barro Economic growth in a cross section of countries Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 1991 407-443
2. Benjamin, D., Brant, L., Giles, J., 2004. The evolution of income inequality in rural China. Discussion paper no. 04-01. University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
3. B.A. Cardak Heterogeneous preferences, education expenditures and income distribution The Economic Record 75 1999 63-76
4. S. Chatterjee J. Cooper B. Ravikumar Strategic complementarity in business formation: Aggregate fluctuations and sunspot equilibria Review of Economic Studies 60 1993 795-811
5. A.E. Clark A.J. Oswald Satisfaction and comparison income Journal of Public Economics 61 1996 359-381
6. G. Corneo O. Jeanne On relative wealth effects and the optimality of growth Economics Letters 54 1997 87-92
7. G. Corneo O. Jeanne Pecuniary emulation, inequality and growth European Economic Review 43 1999 1665-1678
8. G. Corneo O. Jeanne On the relative-wealth effects and long-run growth Research in Economics 55 2001a 349-358
9. G. Corneo O. Jeanne Status, the distribution of wealth and growth Scandinavian Journal of Economics 103 2001b 283-293
10. R.A. Easterlin Does economic growth improve the human lot? Some empirical evidence In: P. David M. Reder (Eds.), Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honour of Moses Abramovitz 1974 Academic Press New York 89-125
11. C. Fershtman K.M. Murphy Y. Weiss Social status, education and growth Journal of Political Economy 106 1996 108-132
12. G.S. Fields Changes in poverty and inequality in developing countries World Bank Research Observer 4 1989 167-185
13. W.H. Fisher F.X. Hof Relative consumption, economic growth and taxation Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie) 73 2000 241-262
14. K. Futagami A. Shibata Keeping one step ahead of the joneses: Status, the distribution of wealth, and long-run growth Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 36 1998 109-126
15. G. Glomm B. Ravikumar Public versus private investment in human capital: endogenous growth and income inequality Journal of Political Economy 100 1992 818-834
16. G. Glomm B. Ravikumar Growth-inequality trade-offs in a model with public sector R-D Canadian Journal of Economics 27 1994 485-493
17. G. Glomm B. Ravikumar Endogenous public policy and multiple equilibria European Journal of Political Economy 11 6 1995 53-662
18. L. Gong H. Zou Direct preferences for wealth, the risk premium puzzle, growth, and policy effectiveness Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 26 2002 247-270
19. Gradstein, M., 2003. The political economy of public spending on education, inequality, and growth. Working Paper 3162. World Bank Policy Research.
20. F. Hirsch The Social Limits to Growth 1976 Havard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts
21. K. Hosoya Non-separable utility, wealth effects, and economic growth in a monetary economy Economics Bulletin 15 2002 1-7
22. M. Jellal T. Rajhi Croissance et statut social Revue d'Économie Politique 113 2003 87-103
23. Justino, P., Litchfield, J., 2003. Welfare in VietNam during the 1990s: poverty, inequality and poverty dynamics. PRUS Working Paper no. 8. University of Sussex.
24. A. Kapteyn S. Van de Geer H. Van de Stadt T. Wansbeek Interdependent preferences: An econometric analysis Journal of Applied Econometrics 12 1997 665-686
25. J.R. Kluegel G. Csepeli T. Kolosi A. Örkeny M. Neményi Accounting for the rich and the poor: Existential justice in comparative perspective In: J.R. Kluegel D.S. Mason B. Wegener (Eds.), Social Justice and Political Change, Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States 1995 Aldine de Gruyter New York 179-209
26. M. Kreidl Changes in the perception of poverty and wealth: Czech Republic between 1991-1995 Czech Sociological Review 6 1998 73-97
27. S.H.P. Lau Welfare-maximizing vs. growth-maximizing shares of government investment and consumption Economics Letters 47 1995 351-359
28. N.V. Long K. Shimomura Relative wealth, status seeking and catching-up Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 53 2004 529-542
29. M. McBride Relative-income effects on subjective well-being in the cross-section Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 45 2001 251-278
30. H. Mohtadi T. Roe Growth, lobbying and public goods European Journal of Political Economy 14 1998 453-473
31. K. Murphy A. Shleifer R. Vishny Income distribution, market size and industrialization Quarterly Journal of Economics 104 1989 537-564
32. R. Perotti Growth, income distribution and democracy: What the data say Journal of Economics Growth 60 1996 149-187
33. F. Ramsey A mathematical theory of saving Economic Journal 38 1928 543-559
34. M. Rauscher Conspicuous consumption, economic growth and taxation Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie) 66 1997 35-42
35. Smith, A., 1759. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Reprinted, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 1982.
36. Veblen, T., 1899. The Theory of the Leisure Class. Reprinted, Modern Library, New York, 1934.
37. H. Zou The 'spirit of capitalism' and long-run growth European Journal of Political Economy 10 1994 279-293