provide insight into the effects of interpersonal factors on status consumption. Furthermore, high and low materialism serve … consciousness) on status consumption, whereas the low-materialism group requires self-monitoring as an additional antecedent of …Despite the rapid and dramatic changes in male fashion consumption over the past 20years, consumer research largely …

“bandwagon” type of luxury consumption. It develops and empirically confirms a conceptual model of bandwagon consumption of … consumption. This relationship is mediated by the level of a consumer's status-seeking predispositions, susceptibility to … of bandwagon luxury consumption and can be used as inputs in the development of marketing strategies. …

We conduct a classroom survey to investigate the willingness to sacrifice consumption in absolute terms in order to … ascend above others in terms of consumption levels. In contrast to other studies using survey methodologies, participants are … induced by relative consumption concerns, or else by nonmonotonic preferences. We find that relative consumption concerns …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

textual analysis as the microeconomic foundations for Keynes’s Consumption Theory; the second goal is to demonstrate that it … is possible to ground a Keynesian-type aggregate Consumption function on the basis of (some of) the principles underlying …

consumers´ happiness. Indeed, higherincome and correspondingly expensive consumption do not make people muchhappier, which … analysessuggest that people could improve their happiness-to-consumption efficiencythrough activities that let them achieve a sense of … mastery and belonging, andby engaging in experiential and social consumption. Based on preliminaryresults hereby discussed …