Smooth it like the 'Joneses'? Estimating peer-group effects in intertemporal consumption choice

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 527, 2008, Pages 454-476

  Maurer, Jürgen ^a   Meier, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MACROECONOMICS; PANEL DATA;

EID: 39749184809     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02129.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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