Inequality and growth in the presence of competition for status

Economics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 291-296

  Hopkins, Ed ^a   Kornienko, Tatiana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption externalities; Growth; Heterogeneous agents; Inequality; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750524665     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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