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<p>This paper is intended to review what we know about how responsive consumption and savings choices are to tax incentives (interest rate changes).</p>
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Research Associate University of Bologna
Matthew is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna focusing on consumption and savings choices and how policy affects them.
CPP Co-Director
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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- IFS
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Attanasio, O and Wakefield, M. (2007). A review of the effects of taxes on consumption and saving. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/review-effects-taxes-consumption-and-saving (accessed: 4 May 2024).
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