Life-Cycle Consumption: Can Single Agent Models Get it Right?
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Keywords
Consumption; Life-Cycle Models; Households;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2011-03-05 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
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