Tails of Lorenz curves

DOI10.1016/S0304-4076(01)00145-2zbMath1021.62101OpenAlexW2014047715MaRDI QIDQ1867734

Christian Schluter, Mark Trede

Publication date: 2 April 2003

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-4076(01)00145-2

zbMATH Keywords

regular variationstatistical inferencetail behaviourLorenz curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32)

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