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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses

  • Robert H. Frank
American Economic Review
vol. 95, no. 2, May 2005
(pp. 137–141)
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Citation

Frank, Robert, H. 2005. "Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses." American Economic Review 95 (2): 137–141. DOI: 10.1257/000282805774670392

JEL Classification

  • D11 Consumer Economics: Theory
  • D62 Externalities
  • D71 Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations