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Does Buffer-Stock Saving Explain the Smoothness and Excess Sensitivity of Consumption?

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Sydney C. Ludvigson
Alexander Michaelides

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Volume (Year): 91 (2001)
Issue (Month): 3 (June)
Pages: 631-647
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