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Habits in Consumption, Transactions Learning And Economic Growth

This paper presents a model of endogenous growth in the presence of habit formation in consumption. The authors argue that in addition to the traditional disutility effects of habitual consumption, the past history of consumption represents a past record of transactions as well.