Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status

By Ed Hopkins, Tatiana Kornienko. 2004

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Citations in the corpus

• All That Glitters Is Not Gold: How Others’ Status Influences the Effect of Power Distance Belief on Status Consumption (2016, unknown): “We use this value of relative car status as an indicator of status consumption, consistent with past research regarding the relative nature of status consumption (Hopkins and Kornienko 2004; Ordabayeva and Chandon 2011).”
• Status, Caste, and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India (2013, background): “Hopkins, Ed and Tatiana Kornienko (2004), ―Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status‖, American Economic Review, 94, 4:1085-1107.”
• Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns: Theory and Evidence (2017, unknown): “39One of the main differences with the model in Hopkins and Kornienko (2004) is that here equilibrium strategies are decreasing, whereas there they are increasing. Hopkins and Kornienko (2007) apply the model in Hopkins and Kornienko (2004) to the case of procurement auctions, where strategies are d”
• Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank (2018, unknown): “Recent research indicates that students may have rank concerns during primary school and that they adjust their effort accordingly (see Tincani (2015), Hopkins & Kornienko (2004) and Kuziemko et al. (2014)).”
• When the Joneses’ consumption hurts : Optimal public good provision and nonlinear income taxation (2008, background): “4 Alternative approaches include ratio comparisons (Boskin and Sheshinski, 1978; Layard, 1980) and comparisons of the ordinal rank (Frank, 1985; Hopkins and Kornienko, 2004).”
• The Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences (2011, background): “The result can be a ruinous race to invest in status, possibly making everyone worse off (Hopkins and Kornienko [74]).”
• Conspicuous conservation: The Prius halo and willingness to pay for environmental bona fides (2014, methodology): “All are made worse off (Hopkins and Kornienko, 2004).”