Is the Pareto-Lévy law a good representation of income distributions?

Empirical Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 719-737

  Dagsvik, John K ^a   Jia, Zhiyang ^a   Vatne, Bjørn H ^b   Zhu, Weizhen ^c  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORGES BANK   (Norway)

^c The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway   (Norway)

Author keywords

Generalized Beta type II distributions; Income distributions; Invariance principles; Pareto L vy distribution; Stable distributions

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL METHOD;

NORWAY;

EID: 84875227881     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-011-0539-z     Document Type: Article

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