Research papers: (if you experience download problems, please email me.)
Published:
Heffetz, Ori, and Moses Shayo. 2009. How Large Are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand?
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4): 170–99. ssrn.com/abstract=1133342 (March, 2009)
Media: New York Times, Psychology Today, Inc., TheMarker, etc.
Accepted/Forthcoming:
A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities (March, 2009).
Accepted subject to revisions, Review of Economics and Statistics. ssrn.com/abstract=1004543
An older version circulated under the title Conspicuous Consumption and Expenditure Visibility: Measurement and Application. It is available here.
Media: New York Times, Haaretz
Heffetz, Ori, and Robert H. Frank. Forthcoming. Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications.
Handbook of Social Economics, Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew Jackson, eds., Elsevier, forthcoming. ssrn.com/abstract=1155422 (July, 2008)
Working Papers:
Cobb-Douglas Utility With Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model (August, 2007).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004544
The two papers above—A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities and Cobb-Douglas Utility With Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model—are based on the first chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation, Conspicuous Consumption and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures (Princeton University, 2004). The first paper updates the empirical analysis, the second details the model. The original chapter—with more discussions, but less (and now redundant) empirics—is available here.
Who Sees What? Demographics and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures (August, 2007).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004545
The First Meaning of Consumption Conference we organized at Cornell, August 2008.