Status substitution and conspicuous consumption

• Tác giả: Christian Ghinglino, Alastair Langtry
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 640.7 Education, research, related topics; evaluation and purchasing guides
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 196605

Tóm tắt

This paper adapts ideas from social identity theory to set out a new framework for modelling conspicuous consumption. Agents derive status from their own conspicuous consumption and from belonging to an identity group with high conspicuous consumption. Importantly, these two sources of status are substitutes. Agents also feel pressure to conform with their neighbours in a network. This framework can rationalise a set of seemingly conflicting stylised facts about conspicuous consumption that are currently explained by different families of models. In addition, our model delivers new testable predictions regarding the effect of network structure and income inequality on conspicuous consumption.