Consumption and habit formation when time horizon is finite

Economics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-116

  Angelini, Viola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Habit formation; Life cycle consumption; Precautionary saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 64149109961     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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