Generalized concentration/inequality indices of economic systems evolving in time

  • Authors:
  • Guglielmo D'Amico;Giuseppe Di Biase

  • Affiliations:
  • University "G. D'Annunzio", Department of Drug Sciences, Chieti, Italy;University "G. D'Annunzio", Department of Drug Sciences, Chieti, Italy

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper time evolving indices are defined and studied through the introduction of a population structure chancing during the time. These indices are useful to describe the concentration (or inequality) of the wealth in a stochastic model of the wealth evolution. Here some static indices usually used in literature are generalized. In particular the paper shows how it is possible to generalize the Herfindahl-Hirschman and Gini indices and the Theil's entropy. These indices become stochastic processes of which the moments and the asymptotic behavior is provided. A computation of such indices and their asymptotic behavior in different economical scenarios concludes the paper.