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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

The Empirical Importance of Precautionary Saving

  • Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
  • Jonathan A. Parker
American Economic Review
vol. 91, no. 2, May 2001
(pp. 406–412)
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Citation

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier, and Jonathan A. Parker. 2001. "The Empirical Importance of Precautionary Saving." American Economic Review, 91 (2): 406–412. DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.2.406

JEL Classification

  • E21 Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
  • D15 Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving