Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123375 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 09/07
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
This paper surveys selected applications of the Lorenz curve and related stochastic orders in economics and econometrics, with a bias towards problems in statistical distribution theory. These include characterizations of income distributions in terms of families of inequality measures, Lorenz ordering of multiparameter distributions in terms of their parameters, probability inequalities for distributions of quadratic forms, and Condorcet jury theorems.
Subjects: 
Lorenz curve
Lorenz order
majorization
income distribution
income inequality
statistical distributions
characterizations
Condorcet jury theorem
JEL: 
D31
C16
C46
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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