About the hyperbolic Lorenz curve

José María Sarabia (), Faustino Prieto and Vanesa Jordá

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 136, issue C, 42-45

Abstract: In a recent paper in this journal, Wang and Smyth (2015) propose a new bi-parametric functional form for the Lorenz curve and use it to derive new parametric forms. In this paper, we demonstrate that the new bi-parametric model is a reparameterization of the hyperbolic Lorenz curve proposed by Arnold (1986). We obtain new and important properties not previously considered.

Keywords: Lorenz curve; Donaldson–Weymark–Kakwani index; Pietra index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 D30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.005

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