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Response to "Fashion Cycles in Economics"

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  • Wolfgang Pesendorfer

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The paper argues that fashion demand is cyclical because of the signaling role of fashion. Agents use fashion goods to signal their type—e.g., their wealth—and to screen the type of other agents. A fashion good is an effective signal as long as its price is high and only high types have an incentive to buy it. Over time producers will lower the price of the fashion good to sell the good to lower types. This leads to a degradation of the signaling value of the fashion. Eventually, there is room for a “new fashion†, i.e., another fashion item sold at a high price that separates high from low types

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  • Wolfgang Pesendorfer, 2004. "Response to "Fashion Cycles in Economics"," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 1(3), pages 455-464, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ejw:journl:v:1:y:2004:i:3:p:455-464
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