There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable … properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Pareto distribution. But these income distribution functions (IDFs) continue to be described with a single index (such as the …

Power index research has been a very active field in the last decades. Will this continue or are all the important …

This paper introduces the Werden-Froeb Index (WFI) to assist in evaluating merger-specific efficiencies in horizontal … mergers. The index measures the weighted average reduction in marginal costs required to restore pre-merger equilibrium prices … has relatively low information requirements. We propose to use the index as a natural complement to concentration measures …