Consuming more or consuming more than the others? An empirical analysis of positional goods

Consommer plus ou consommer plus que les autres ? Une analyse empirique des biens de position

Gilles Grolleau (), Tarik Lakhal and Naoufel Mzoughi
Additional contact information
Tarik Lakhal: IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education - UB - Université de Bourgogne

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Based on Solnick and Hemenway [1998], we empirically investigate the inter-dependence of utility functions using French data. Our estimations partially confirm the results of Solnick and Hemenway. We show that (1) relative position matters, (2) positional concerns differ among domains, (3) goods are more positional than bads, and (4) position matters more when choosing for one's child than when choosing for oneself. Moreover, the home country is likely to influence positional concerns and their ranking

Date: 2008-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Revue Economique, 2008, 59 (4), pp.701-717. ⟨10.3917/reco.594.0701⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02653322

DOI: 10.3917/reco.594.0701

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().