17-102/III - A New Inequality Measure that is Sensitive to Extreme Values and Asymmetries

• Authors
  Michael McAler, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Hang K. Ryu, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea; Daniel J. Slottje, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
• Publication date
  November 3, 2017

• Keywords
  Inequality Index, Extreme value distributions, Maximum entropy method, Orthonormal basis, Legendre polynomials
• JEL
  D31, D63