George Clooney or Saddam Hussein? Why do consumers pay for celebrity possessions?

Monday, February 14, 2011 - 17:31 in Mathematics & Economics

A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research sheds some light into why someone would pay $48,875 for a tape measure that had belonged to Jackie Kennedy or $3,300 for Bernie Madoff's footstool....

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