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Money flexibility and optimal consumption-leisure choice under price dispersion

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The synthesis of the G.Sigler’s rule of the optimal search with the classical individual labor supply model enlarges the understanding of the phenomenon of money flexibility. The constraints of the search model makes the Lagrangian multiplier equal to the marginal utility of the wage rate and establish the correspondence between the purchase price elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption expenditures, the wage rate elasticity of the marginal utility of money, and the wage rate elasticity of purchase prices. This correspondence can review the “leisure model” of behavior as well as the Veblen effect. The phenomenon of the sunk costs sensitivity also becomes more understandable.

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  • Malakhov, Sergey, 2013. "Money flexibility and optimal consumption-leisure choice under price dispersion," MPRA Paper 45197, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    5. Malakhov, Sergey, 2012. "Veblen effect, search for status goods, and negative utility of conspicuous leisure," MPRA Paper 40809, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Sergey MALAKHOV, 2016. "Law of One Price and Optimal Consumption-Leisure Choice Under Price Dispersion," Expert Journal of Economics, Sprint Investify, vol. 4(1), pages 1-8.
    2. Malakhov, Sergey, 2014. "Willingness to overpay for insurance and for consumer credit: search and risk behavior under price dispersion," MPRA Paper 59720, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Malakhov, Sergey, 2013. "Эффект Веблена, Предельная Полезность Денег И Денежная Иллюзия [Veblen effect, marginal utility of money, and money illusion]," MPRA Paper 51014, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Sergey MALAKHOV, 2014. "Willingness to Overpay for Insurance and for Consumer Credit: Search and Risk Behavior Under Price Dispersion," Expert Journal of Economics, Sprint Investify, vol. 2(3), pages 109-119.
    5. Sergey MALAKHOV, 2014. "Sunk Costs Of Consumer Search: Economic Rationality Of Satisficing Decision," Theoretical and Practical Research in the Economic Fields, ASERS Publishing, vol. 5(1), pages 56-62.
    6. Sergey MALAKHOV, 2015. "Propensity to Search: Common, Leisure, and Labor Models of Consumer Behavior," Expert Journal of Economics, Sprint Investify, vol. 3(1), pages 63-76.
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    Keywords

    money flexibility; consumption leisure choice; search; Veblen effect;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

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