Arbeitspapier

The weak Pareto law and regular variation in the tails

We show that the weak Pareto law, as used to characterize the tail behaviour of income distributions, implies regularly varying tail probabilities, but that the reverse implication does not hold. We also establish implications among other versions of the weak Pareto law.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Technical Report ; No. 2002,47

Classification
Econometric and Statistical Methods: Other
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Subject
Pareto law
regular variation
tail probabilities
Disparitätsmaß
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Krämer, Walter
Ziebach, Thorsten
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen
(where)
Dortmund
(when)
2002

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Krämer, Walter
  • Ziebach, Thorsten
  • Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen

Time of origin

  • 2002

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