TY  - RPRT
AU  - McAleer, Michael
AU  - Ryu, Hang K.
AU  - Slottje, Daniel J.
PY  - 2017
SN  - 2341-2356
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/22931
AB  - There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent literature on the...
LA  - eng
A3  - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico (ICAE)
KW  - Inequality Index
KW  - Extreme value distributions
KW  - Maximum entropy method
KW  - Orthonormal basis
KW  - Legendre polynomials.
TI  - A New Inequality Measure that is Sensitive to Extreme Values and Asymmetries
TY  - technical report
VL  - 2017
ER  -