Relative consumption, economic growth, and taxation

DOI10.1007/BF01231266zbMath1002.91044MaRDI QIDQ1611048

Walter H. Fisher, Franz X. Hof

Publication date: 20 August 2002

Published in: Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

economic growthrelative consumptionsocial status

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation) (91B64) Economic growth models (91B62) Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42)

Related Items (22)

Heterogeneous conformism and wealth distribution in a neoclassical growth model ⋮ The effects of consumption externalities in an R\&D-based growth model with endogenous skilled and unskilled labor supply ⋮ Positional preferences and efficiency in a dynamic economy ⋮ Admiration is a source of indeterminacy ⋮ Relative consumption, relative wealth and growth ⋮ Multiple attractors and dynamics in an OLG model with productive environment ⋮ The quest for status and endogenous labor supply: the relative wealth framework ⋮ Consumption externalities: a representative consumer model when agents are heterogeneous ⋮ Conditions for indeterminacy and thresholds in neoclassical growth models ⋮ Will the consumption externalities' effects in the Ramsey model please stand up? ⋮ A note on external habits and efficiency in the AK model ⋮ Keeping up with the ageing Joneses ⋮ Consumption taxation, social status and indeterminacy in models of endogenous growth with elastic labor supply ⋮ Equilibrium Efficiency in the Ramsey Model with Habit Formation ⋮ Theory of negative consumption externalities with applications to the economics of happiness ⋮ GROWTH AND KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ⋮ AGGREGATE AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF TAX POLICY WITH INTERDEPENDENT PREFERENCES: THE ROLE OF “CATCHING UP WITH THE JONESES” ⋮ Inequality and growth: the roles of life expectancy and relative consumption ⋮ Consumption externalities with endogenous time preference ⋮ Keeping up with or running away from the Joneses: the Barro model revisited ⋮ Jealousy and underconsumption in a one-sector model with wealth preference ⋮ The good, the bad and the worse: current, past and future consumption externalities and equilibrium efficiency

Cites Work

• Conspicuous consumption, economic growth, and taxation
• Falling behind the Joneses: relative consumption and the growth--savings paradox
• On relative wealth effects and the optimality of growth
• Public Finance in Models of Economic Growth

This page was built for publication: Relative consumption, economic growth, and taxation