“Relative concerns for consumption at the top”: an intertemporal analysis for the UK

This paper investigates whether the consumption of rich households provides a reference point in the intertemporal consumption choices of non-rich households. Using UK household data on food consumption, we estimate the Euler equation implied by a life-cycle model incorporating relative concerns for...

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Main Authors: Quintana-Domeque, C, Wohlfart, J
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016