The most common measure of inequality used in scientific research is the Gini index. In 2007 Zenga proposed a new index of inequality that has all the appropriate properties of an measure of equality. In this paper we want to compare the Gini and Zenga indexes, calculating these quantities for a...

We investigate a class of binary choice models with social interactions. We propose a unifying perspective that integrates economic models using a utility function and psychological models using an impact function. A general approach for analyzing the equilibrium structure of these models within...