The Forbes 400 and the Pareto wealth distribution

By O. S. Klass, Ofer Biham, Moshe Levy, O. Malcai, Sorin Solomon. 2006

195 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/65181a8e074292d27381778369a3b69eada5bb17

Citations in the corpus

• How Fat is the Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution? (2018, unknown): “…power laws for the 100 wealthiest Canadians for the years 1999-2008, Levy and Solomon (1997), who estimate a Pareto law for the Forbes 400 wealthiest people in the US for the year 1996, and Klass et al. (2006), who estimate pareto laws also using the Forbes 400 in the US for the period 1988-2003.”
• The Effect of Consumption and Production Structure on Growth and Distribution: A Micro to Macro Model (2010, unknown): “The large and consolidated literature on the two–way link between economic growth and distributional change remains confined to macro–level analyses, since the seminal Kuznet’s curve and the works by Pasinetti (1962), Meade (1963), Stiglitz (1969) and Tinbergen (1975), which were extended by (Atkins”
• WEALTH INEQUALITY: A SURVEY (2015, unknown): “It has been used for example to model wealth in the Forbes ‘rich lists’ (see, e.g., Levy and Solomon 1997, Klass et al. 2006).18 The Pareto Type-I distribution is characterised by the distribution function F (w) = 1− [w/w]α , w > w (18) and so has density f(w) = αwαw−1−α where α is a parameter that…”