This study empirically explores the following issue: Does corruption fuel conspicuous consumption? It examines the … existence and magnitude of any potential corruption-effect on conspicuous consumption expenditure. Regression analyses of an …

other identities such as caste and race. By viewing conspicuous consumption within the Stigma-Identity-Threat framework …, this study analyses how socially disadvantaged groups in India respond to stigma through their consumption behaviour. Using …

orientation are more prone to having C-XEN, and proposes that status consumption and social comparison mediates the relationship …

2000s, which allowed for only moderately increasing consumption inequality, despite sharply rising income inequality. We … combine survey data on household consumption with our own representative survey on the visibility and status relevance of … that non-rich households shift their income allocations towards more visible and status relevant areas of consumption when …