This Chapter is about the techniques, formal and informal, that are commonly used to give quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis - covering subjects including inequality, poverty and the modelling of income distributions. It deals with parametric and non-parametric...

New estimators for the parameters of the Gamma distribution are proposed, which are used for constructing a test of fit for this model based on the ratio of two variance estimators. The asymptotic null distribution of the test statistic is also included.

The paper considers an elementary New-Keynesian three-equation model and compares its Bayesian estimation based on conventional priors to the results from the method of moments (MM), which seeks to match a finite set of the model-generated second moments of inflation, output and the interest...