The Role of Wealth Transformations: An Application to Estimating the Effect of Tax Incentives on Saving

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Pence, Karen M ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

401(k) program; inverse hyperbolic sine; transformations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85117529937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1538-0645.1430     Document Type: Article

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