Frugality; Are We Fretting Too Much? Household Saving and Assets in the United States
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Economic models; Financial crisis; Asset prices; Private savings; Private investment; Private sector; Income; Household credit; Investment; Time series; United States; Saving; net worth; cointegration; transversality; paradox of thrift; equation; labor income; statistic; disposable income; consumer durables;NEP fields
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