Generational accounts, aggregate saving and intergenerational distribution

Economica

Volumn 64, Issue 256, 1997, Pages 605-626

  Buiter, Willem H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERGENERATIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SAVINGS BEHAVIOUR; THEORY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 0031429394     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0335.00102     Document Type: Article

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