Introduction The last decade has witnessed that random exchange models have been developed in the field of econophysics and applied into various economic issues. This kind of models was proposed to explore the underlying mechanism of wealth distribution or income distribution. Besides static distribution, these models have also been used to study the dynamic characteristics of these systems suc...

contains anonymized data collected in the SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES. All computations on these micro data were prepared by DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY and the responsibility for the use and interpretation of these data is entirely that of the author. Lynn Lethbridge and Janice Yates provided exemplary research assistance. Special thanks to Mike Sheridan, of Statistics Canada, for his help in obtaini...

Health monitoring of world economy is an important issue, especially in a time of profound economic difficulty world-wide. The most important aspect of health monitoring is to accurately predict economic downturns. To gain insights into how economic crises develop, we present two metrics, positive and negative income entropy and distribution analysis, to analyze the collective "spatial" and tem...

Can income equality be combined with high economic efficiency and rapid economic growth? Fortunately, we need not answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth distribution on one hand, and efficiency/growth on the other, depends on how a certain distribution of income and wealth has come about. For example, if a given redistr...

abstract: decentralization is a process in which local affairs are administrated by local authorities outside of activities of the central government. today, decentralization policy is considered as one of the ways that most countries adopted to improve public sector performance. in this paper using geometric analysis, innovation that this paper represents, an econometric model is considered to...

population in all countries plays a fundamental role in economic growth and economic development. but besides absolute size and growth rate of population, the more important factor will be “age structure” or “age distribution” of population, because it can be as source of many economical, social, and political challenges. in this research, we investigate effect of changes in population shares i...