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The intertemporal allocation of consumption: theory and evidence: A comment

โœ Scribed by Angus Deaton

Book ID
116105393
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1995
Weight
234 KB
Volume
42
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-2231

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