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A variation of the Dragulescu-Yakovenko income model

Statistical Finance 2014-06-20 v1 Applications

Abstract

In the context of the Dragulescu-Yakovenko (2000) model, we show that empirical income distribution with truncated datasets, cannot be properly modeled by the one-parameter exponential distribution. However, a truncated version characterized by an exponential distribution with two parameters gives an accurate fit.

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@article{arxiv.1406.5083,
  title  = {A variation of the Dragulescu-Yakovenko income model},
  author = {José María Sarabia and Faustino Prieto and Vanesa Jordá},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5083},
  year   = {2014}
}

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This is a preprint (7 pages, 4 tables, 2 figures)