Status, affluence, and inequality: Rank-based comparisons in games of status

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 552-568

  Hopkins, Ed ^a   Kornienko, Tatiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conspicuous consumption; Consumption externalities; Dispersive orderings; First price auctions; Income inequality; Relative standing; Social competitiveness; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349336334     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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