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Empirical analyses on income and wealth inequality and those in other fields in economics and finance often face the … of the recently developed \textit{t}-statistic based robust inference approaches in the analysis of inequality measures … equality of two parameters of interest (e.g., a test of equality of inequality measures in two regions or countries considered …
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We use the Interdistributional Lorenz Curves (ILCs) of Butler and McDonald (1987) to visualize convergence or divergence between income distributions. To illustrate the idea, we compare income distributions from Spain, Italy, and Germany. We also offer methods to test for significant differences...
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This paper applies the tool box measures of disaggregative income inequality characterization and the statistical …
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published by statistical agencies as measures of the distribution of income inequality - to calculate how large a survey sample …
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This paper extends Imbens and Manski’s (2004) analysis of confidence intervals for interval identified parameters. For their final result, Imbens and Manski implicitly assume superefficient estimation of a nuisance parameter. This appears to have gone unnoticed before, and it limits the...
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In recent years, numerous volatility-based derivative products have been engineered. This has led to interest in constructing conditional predictive densities and confidence intervals for integrated volatility. In this paper, we propose nonparametric kernel estimators of the aforementioned...
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asymptotically valid inference based on these processes. Our construction also provides new adaptive inequality/moment selection …
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The goal of this paper is to develop techniques to simplify semiparametric inference. We do this by deriving a number of numerical equivalence results. These illustrate that in many cases, one can obtain estimates of semiparametric variances using standard formulas derived in the...
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This paper surveys some of the recent literature on inference in partially identified models. After reviewing some basic concepts, including the definition of a partially identified model and the identified set, we turn our attention to the construction of confidence regions in partially...
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This paper studies inference for the average treatment effect in randomized controlled trials with covariate-adaptive randomization. Here, by covariate-adaptive randomization, we mean randomization schemes that first stratify according to baseline covariates and then assign treatment status so...
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