Aggregate precautionary savings: When is the third derivative irrelevant?

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 373-396

  Huggett, Mark ^a   Ospina, Sandra ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Idiosyncratic shocks; Liquidity constraints; Precautionary savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037615624     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(01)00079-4     Document Type: Article

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