Intertemporal substitution in consumption revisited /
Some of the highly controversial questions in macroeconomics critically hinge on the value of a single parameter of consumer preference--the elasticity of intertemporal substitution. This paper provides new estimates of this parameter for individual G-7 and a panel of twenty OECD countries. We find...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.?] :
International Monetary Fund, Research Department,
[1993]
Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993 |
Series: | IMF Working Papers ;
Working Paper No. 93/26 IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1993/026 IMF eLibrary IMF working paper ; WP/93/26 |
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