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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Status Goods"”.
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The Power of the Liminal: A Study of the Role of Harbours in Political Economies of the Bronze Age Aegean
… palatial interests. I also quantify imported goods and evidence for metallurgical production and analyze the patterns in this data diachronically and at multiple geographic scales. While in specific historical circumstances the case study sites were tightly integrated into the palatial …
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Equilibrium Implications of Social Utility and Reference Dependence
… by consumers' desire to signal their social status through product usage, and theoretically explains why fashion hits appear to be randomly created. The fashion industry is characterized by its unpredictability and apparent randomness of fashion hits, i.e., no one is able to predict ahead of …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… communities, and how they impact consumption of status goods, and provision of public goods. The two chapters on political economy provide novel mechanisms for explaining lobbying behaviour and extensions of property rights, respectively. The first chapter examines how social networks affect the …