Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  The American Economic Review

• Publication date

  2004-08-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1257/0002828042002705
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