Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - 2014
the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the effect of reference consumption, defined as the consumption level of all … households who are perceived to be richer, on household savings and consumption. When controlling for own income as well as … unobserved individual and local area heterogeneity, an increase in reference consumption of 100 euros leads to an increase in …