Should public policy respond to positional externalities

By R. Frank. 2008

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Education as a Positional Good: A Life Satisfaction Approach (2011, background): “Extensive discussion on positional externalities can be found in Frank (2005, 2008) .”
Uncertainty, Expectations and Behavioural Aspects of Housing Market Choices (2011, background): “Thus housing consumption will in part be about social positioning: the classic “keeping up with the Joneses” syndrome (see e.g. Frank 2008).”
Inequality and Happiness (2012, background): “Frank (2008) claims that the increase of top earners in the United States (we add: together with social transparency) has led to an increase of positional consumption and externalities.”
Status Concerns as a Motive for Crime? (2015, unknown): “, Frank (2008).”