Do the elderly dissave in Japan?

Long-run Growth and Short-run Stabilization: Essays in Memory of Albert Ando

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 129-136

  Horioka, Charles Yuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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