The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between information asymmetry and the alignment with the Integrated Reporting (IR) framework in South Africa. Panel data regression and Welch's t-test are used on a dataset of 64 firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)...

Following a methodology proposed by Jantzen and Volpert (2012), we use IRS Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) data for the United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income distribution. We also calculate the overall Gini index...

We offer a brief review of the use of distributional mixture models with a finite number of components for the study of the distribution of income. In general, finite mixture models find a number of applications across fields, but they usually arise from theoretical considerations. Application...