Social Influence and Consumption: Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors

By Mark Grinblatt, Matti Keloharju, Seppo Ikheimo. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities (2011, unknown): “Grinblatt, Keloharju, and Ikäheimo (2008) find social effects, which occur immediately (within days), of car purchases among Finnish neighbors (notice, however, that they interpret their findings as evidence of information sharing rather than Veblen effects).”
• Opinion Leadership and Social Contagion in New Product Diffusion (2011, methodology): “…network data (Hill et al. 2006, Van den Bulte and Lilien 2001) or trying to proxy for network ties by geographical propinquity (Bell and Song 2007, Grinblatt et al. 2008, Manchanda et al. 2008) or by group membership (e.g., Duflo and Saez 2003, Sacerdote 2001), or they have assessed the existence…”
• PEER EFFECTS IN ECONOMIC ATTITUDES (2014, unknown): “…wide range of behaviors, including criminal activity (Kling, Ludwig, and Katz, 2005), educational achievement (Sacerdote, 2001), automobile purchases (Grinblatt, Keloharju, and Ikäheimo, 2008), and obesity (Christakis and Fowler, 2007), little evidence exists on peer effects in economic attitudes.”