Transfers and the effect of monitoring in an overlapping-generations experiment

European Economic Review

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1363-1391

  Van Der Heijden, E C M ^a   Nelissen, J H M ^b   Potters, J J M ^b   Verbon, H A A ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL TRANSFER; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; MONITORING; OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS; TRANSFER SYSTEM;

EID: 0032123558     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(97)00070-6     Document Type: Article

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