Consumption and Fluctuations: What Role for Behavioral Economics?
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consumption; expectations; heuristics;All these keywords.
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- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- E70 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
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