Precautionary saving and portfolio allocation: DP by GMM

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 197-215

  Letendre, Marc André ^a   Smith, Gregor W ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C63; D91; G11; Portfolio theory; Precautionary saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040772140     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(01)00066-6     Document Type: Article

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