Boredom is an aversive mental state that is typically evoked by monotony and drives
individuals to seek novel information. Despite this effect on individual behavior, the …

This paper uses dynamic optimization to study the optimal advertising of fashion products
over time. For fashion products, brand advertising and exclusivity are important sales …

Short abstract This thesis is the first to study the history of champagne in nineteenth-century
Britain, a period in which the usage and style of champagne changed fundamentally. From a …

Covert identity signals permit the communication of group membership to ingroup members
while avoiding potentially costly detection by members of other groups. If individuals are …

We propose a discrete-time exchange economy evolutionary model, in which two groups of
agents are characterized by different preference structures. The reproduction level of a …

The hemline index, still often referenced by fashion journalists and bloggers, supposedly
identifies a relationship between fashion style and economic indicators. The index makes …

We examine the dependence of the cyclical fluctuations of demand on specific behavioral
attitudes of heterogeneous agents. Starting from a modified version of the model of Tassier …

We investigate the dynamics of household consumption in a setting in which households are
connected across income classes. Low-and high-income households form preferences …

This research combines two strands of economic literature in a dynamic setting:
endogenous preferences (on the consumer side) and strategic competitive markets (on the …

We extend the exchange economy evolutionary discrete-time model with heterogeneous
agents introduced in 'Fashion cycle dynamics in a model with endogenous discrete …