Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71226 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 99
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
The implications of status preference in a simple open economy model will be investigated in this paper. The open economy is modeled as a continuum of identical representative agents who have preferences over consumption and status. In the paper status is identified as relative wealth, which takes the form of relative holdings international financial assets. A symmetric macroeconomic equilibrium is derived in which status is the source of transitional dynamics for consumption and the current account balance. This result illustrates another way to generate transitional dynamics in the small open economy model, which, as is wellknown, does not have well-defined dynamics under perfect capital mobility. The role of status plays in influencing the open economy's adjustment to various macroeconomic shocks is also considered.
Subjects: 
status-preference
open economy dynamics
JEL: 
E21
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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