Domestic savings, public savings and expenditures on consumer durable goods in Argentina

This paper shows that when aspects related to public savings and consumer durables are explicitly measured, there is a considerable reduction in the recent cycle of savings in Argentina. Both public savings and investment are responsible for sharp changes in domestic savings between decades, while a...

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Main Author: López Murphy, Ricardo
Other Authors: Navajas, Fernando
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Science B.V
Series:Journal of Development Economics, vol. 57, no. 1 (October 1998), pp. 97-116
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