A direct test of the permanent income hypothesis with an application to the U.S. states

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1091-1103

  Dejuan, Joseph P ^a   Seater, John J ^b   Wirjanto, Tony S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Permanent income; U.S. states

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244288121     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2005.0014     Document Type: Review

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