Estimating Relative Risk Aversion, the Discount Rate, and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution in Consumption for Brazil Using Three Types of Utility Function
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Review of Econometrics
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1980-2447
DOI: 10.12660/bre.v20n22000.2758