Keeping up with the Neighbors: Social Interaction in a Production Economy

It is well-documented that individuals care about how others around them are doing. This paper studies a production economy in which consumers provide labor supply to a representative firm to earn income for consumption, and their utility depends on their own leisure time, their own consumption leve...

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Main Authors: Zhenhua Feng, Jaimie W. Lien, Jie Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-09-01
Series:Mathematics
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/9/162