Unemployment Expectations, Jumping (S,s) Triggers, and Household Balance Sheets

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 12, Issue , 1997, Pages 149-217

  Carroll, Christopher D ^a   Dunn, Wendy E ^a  

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EID: 0346307679     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/654332     Document Type: Article

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