Resampling approaches were the first techniques employed to compute a variance for the Gini coefficient. Few authors showed that Gini's coefficient measure can be obtained from a synthetic ordinary linear regression (OLS) based on the data and their ranks, thereby providing also with an exact...

This paper provides a technical description of GEM-PIA, a recursive-dynamic computable General Equilibrium Model for Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset portfolio behavior of macromodels, thereby addressing the...

Evidence on the portfolio holdings and transaction patterns of households suggests that the burden of inflation is not evenly distributed. We build a monetary growth model consistent with key features of cross- sectional household data and use this framework to study the distributional impact of...