Efficient Timing of Retirement

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 831-840

  Kingston, Geoffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Retirement; life cycle model; optimal stopping problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288201     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.2000.0097     Document Type: Article

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