On a new Pareto-type distribution with applications in the study of income inequality and risk analysis

ABSTRACT: A recent paper published in this journal (Bourguignon et al., 2016) introduces and studies a new Pareto-type distribution, deriving some of its probabilistic and inferential properties. In this paper, we obtain additional and important properties of this distribution and derive simpler exp...

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Autores: Sarabia Alegría, José María|||0000-0002-9619-4721, Jordá, Vanesa, Prieto Mendoza, Faustino|||0000-0001-7174-5788
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/16241
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/16241
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Incomplete beta function
Lorenz curve
Gini index
Donaldson–Weymark–Kakwani index
Pietra index
Generalized entropy measures
Value at risk
Tail value at risk
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Resumo:ABSTRACT: A recent paper published in this journal (Bourguignon et al., 2016) introduces and studies a new Pareto-type distribution, deriving some of its probabilistic and inferential properties. In this paper, we obtain additional and important properties of this distribution and derive simpler expressions for relevant inequality indices and risk measures. One important feature of this distribution is that many of these expressions are simple functions of the incomplete beta function. Using this result, we obtain closed expressions for the moments and for several inequality measures including the Gini index and the Lorenz curve, the Donaldson?Weymark?Kakwani index, the Pietra index and the generalized entropy measures. Basic risk measures are also obtained. Finally, empirical applications with real income data are given.