Who sees what? Demographics and the visibility of consumer expenditures

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 801-818

  Heffetz, Ori ^a  

^a SAS Institute Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Conspicuous consumption; Expenditure observability; Expenditure visibility; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859027648     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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