Capital Accumulation in an Economy with Dynasties and Uncertain Lifetimes

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 650-674

  Fuster, Luisa ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capital accumulation; uncertain lifetimes; altruism; annuities market; wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288105     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.1999.0086     Document Type: Article

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