A power law (PL) is the form taken by a large number of surprising empirical regularities in
economics and finance. This review surveys well-documented empirical PLs regarding …

Most self-sovereign identity systems consist of strictly objective claims, cryptographically
signed by trusted third party attestors. Lacking protocols in place to account for subjectivity …

What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

Differential unit non‐response in household wealth surveys biases estimates of top tail
wealth shares downward. Using Monte Carlo evidence, I show that adding only a few …

Despite the availability of more sophisticated methods, a popular way to estimate a Pareto
exponent is still to run an OLS regression: log (Rank)= a− b log (Size), and take b as an …

Different methods of estimating the Gross Domestic Product of the Roman Empire in the
second century CE produce convergent results that point to total output and consumption …

The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted
on the belief that success is mainly due, if not exclusively, to personal qualities such as …

Research indicates that individuals' digital footprints, for example in Twitter and Facebook,
can reveal remarkably valid information about their personality characteristics. In this study …

The Global Financial Crisis, the Great Recession and the increase in economic inequality
have brought considerable attention to the issues of wealth distribution and redistribution …

The distribution of wealth lies at the heart of the broad research field of economic inequality.
It is a topic that has recently gained considerable attention in view of the widespread …