Reproducibility of economic research has attracted considerable attention in recentyears. So far, the discussion has focused on reproducibility of empirical analyses. Thispaper addresses a further aspect of reproducibility, the reproducibility of computationalexperiments. We examine the current...

In a series of papers in the 1970s, Camilo Dagum proposed several variants ofa new model for the size distribution of personal income. This Chapter traces thegenesis of the Dagum distributions in applied economics and points out paralleldevelopments in several branches of the applied statistics...

This paper examines the role of bequests and of taxation on bequests for the distributionof wealth. We investigate a model with overlapping generations and heterogenoushouseholds where parents derive utility directly from their bequests. We obtain allresults analytically. Using the coefficient...

Methods for detecting structural changes, or change points, in time series data are widely used in many fields of science and engineering. This chapter sketches some basic methods for the analysis of structural changes in time series data. The exposition is confined to retrospective methods for...