Does consumer sentiment forecast household spending? The Hong Kong case

Economics Letters

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-84

  Fan, Chengze Simon ^a   Wong, Phoebe ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Consumer sentiment; Consumption; E21; Hong Kong; Rational expectation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032219579     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00247-4     Document Type: Article

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