The consumption response to income changes

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 479-506

  Jappelli, Tullio ^a   Pistaferri, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption smoothing; Marginal propensity to consume

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952590498     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.050708.142933     Document Type: Article

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