While the Poisson distribution is a classical statistical model for count data, the distributional model hinges on the constraining property that its mean equal its variance. This text instead introduces the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution and motivates its use in developing flexible...

During my last conversation with Masanao Aoki, he told me that the concept of non-self averaging in statistical physics, frequently appearing in economic and financial systems, has important consequences to policy implication. Zipf's law in firms-size distribution is one of such examples. Recent...

We introduce a gender wage gap into basic one-good textbook versions of the neo-Kaleckian distribution and growth model and examine the effects of improving gender wage equality on income distribution, aggregate demand, capital accumulation and productivity growth. For the closed economy model,...

»Macht oder ökonomisches Gesetz?« lautet der Titel einer berühmten Schrift, die Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk kurz vor seinem Tode 1914 veröffentlichte. Am Beispiel der funktionellen Verteilung von Arbeits- und Kapitaleinkommen versuchte der österreichische Kapital- und Zinstheoretiker zu zeigen,...