Essays about: "Yanming Kan"

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  1. 1. The Mystery of Spending on Celebrations:The Case of Kyrgyzstan

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Yanming Kan; [2015]
    Keywords : festival spending; Kyrgyzstan; peer effect; status seeking; risk pooling;

    Abstract : Luxury spending in connection with festivals has been evidenced as a puzzle in the context of developing countries, and the motivation behind this behavior is still not fully understood. This paper tests three main hypotheses: peer effect, status seeking and risk pooling, to account for the celebration spending of families in Kyrgyzstan using the Life in Kyrgyzstan (LiK) dataset. READ MORE