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- Title
The diffusion dynamics of choice: From durable goods markets to fashion first names.
- Authors
Coulmont, Baptiste; Supervie, Virginie; Breban, Romulus
- Abstract
Goods, styles, ideologies are adopted by society through various mechanisms. In particular, adoption driven by innovation is extensively studied by marketing economics. Mathematical models are currently used to forecast sales of innovative goods. Inspired by the theory of diffusion processes developed for marketing economics, we propose a modelling framework for the mechanism of fashion, which we apply to first names. Analyses of French, Dutch, and US national databases validate our modelling approach for thousands of first names, covering, on average, more than 50% of the yearly incidence in each database. In these cases, it is thus possible to study how first names become popular and when they run out of fashion. Furthermore, we uncover a clear distinction between popularity and fashion: less popular names, typically not included in studies of fashion, may be driven by fashion, as well. © 2016 The Authors Complexity Published byWiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 362-369, 2016
- Subjects
DIFFUSION; DURABLE consumer goods; FASHION
- Publication
Complexity, 2016, Vol 21, p362
- ISSN
1076-2787
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cplx.21748