Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45472 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 4
Publisher: 
University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Tübingen
Abstract: 
We conduct a survey with 264 participants to test for relative consumption effects of national and local public goods as well as private goods. In contrast to previous results, we find that relative consumption effects are more pronounced for private goods than for public goods. Our second finding is that relative consumption effects are less pronounced for local public goods than for national public goods. We discuss and test different explanations for a good's degree of positionality and find that these can, in part, account for our results very well.
Subjects: 
Relative consumption
Positional goods
Public good spillovers
Non-psychological costs
JEL: 
C91
D12
D62
D63
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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