Does income inequality affect aggregate consumption? Revisiting the evidence
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- Jesus Crespo Cuaresma & Jozef Kubala & Kristina Petrikova, 2016. "Does income inequality affect aggregate consumption? Revisiting the evidence," Department of Economics Working Papers wuwp210, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics.
- Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus & Kubala, Jozef & Petrikova, Kristina, 2016. "Does income inequality affect aggregate consumption? Revisiting the evidence," Department of Economics Working Paper Series 210, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
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Keywords
Inequality; Aggregate consumption; Average propensity to consume;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
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