Pension taxation, household debt and the real economy
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Keywords
Crowding out; retirement savings; household debt;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
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