Chapter 11 Consumption

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART B, 1999, Pages 741-812

  Attanasio, Orazio P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consumption; E2; household behaviour; life cycle model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956749800     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)10019-3     Document Type: Review

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