Cowell, Frank A. (Frank Alan)

Overview

Works:	303 works in 745 publications in 2 languages and 8,648 library holdings
Genres:	Conference papers and proceedings
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Contributor, Opponent, Honoree

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Frank A Cowell

Thinking about inequality : personal judgment and income distributions by Yoram Amiel( )

29 editions published in 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"What is inequality? In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the subject that has yielded a substantial body of formal tools and results for income-distribution analysis. But does the standard axiomatic structure coincide with public perceptions of inequality? Or is the economist's concept of inequality a thing apart, perpetuated through serial brainwashing in the way the subject is studied and taught? Amiel and Cowell examine the evidence from a large international questionnaire experiment using student respondents. Along with basic 'cake-sharing' issues, related questions involving social welfare rankings, the relationship between inequality and overall income growth and the meaning of poverty comparisons are considered."--Jacket

Measuring inequality by Frank A Cowell( )

60 editions published between 1977 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 complicated way? Can we use mathematical or statistical techniques to simplify the comparison problem in a way that has economic meaning? What does it mean to measure inequality? Is it similar to National Income? Or a price index? Is it enough just to work out the Gini coefficient? Measuring Inequality tackles these questions and examines the underlying principles of inequality measurement and its relation to welfare economics, distributional analysis, and information theory. The book covers modern theoretical developments in inequality analysis, as well as showing how the way we think about inequality today has been shaped by classic contributions in economics and related disciplines. Formal results and detailed literature discussion are provided in two appendices. The principal points are illustrated in the main text, using examples from US and UK data, as well as other data sources, and associated web materials provide hands-on learning. Measuring Inequality is designed to appeal to both undergraduate and post-graduate students, and academic economists. Its emphasis on practical application means that it will also be useful to policy analysts and advisors

Inequality, welfare and income distribution : experimental approaches by Frances Cowell( )

21 editions published between 2004 and 2009 in English and held by 1,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Covers a range of topics in the field of income distribution and extends the approach to related issues such as mobility and attitudes to risk

Cheating the government : the economics of evasion by Frank A Cowell( Book )

12 editions published between 1989 and 1990 in English and held by 664 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Economic inequality and income distribution by D. G Champernowne( Book )

1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book provides an integrated approach to the topics of inequality and personal income distribution. It covers the practical and theoretical bases for inequality analysis, applications to real-world problems and the foundations of theoretical approaches to income distribution. It also analyses models of the distribution of labour earnings and of income from wealth. The long-run development of income and wealth distribution over many generations is also examined. Special attention is given to an assessment of the merits and weaknesses of standard economic models, to illustrating the implications of distributional mechanisms using real data and illustrative examples, and to providing graphical interpretation of formal arguments

Microeconomic principles by Frank A Cowell( Book )

26 editions published between 1986 and 1992 in English and held by 304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Measuring inequality : techniques for the social sciences by Frank A Cowell( Book )

9 editions published between 1977 and 1995 in English and held by 288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Microeconomics : principles and analysis by Frank A Cowell( Book )

22 editions published between 2004 and 2018 in English and held by 271 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Real-world problems and issues in the text and in featured Applications provide abundant concrete, living examples to show microeconomic theory in action. The text goes beyond basic theory to explain theories and applications from important contemporary fields of economics, including industrial organization, labor economics, international trade, public finance, transaction costs, adverse selection, limited information, contract theory, and resource economics. Game theory is applied in six chapters in the second half of the book

The economics of poverty and inequality( Book )

15 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Economic inequality and income distribution by D. G Champernowne( Book )

13 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 98 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Panel data on incomes : a selection of the papers presented at a conference on the analysis of panel data on incomes, 24/25 June 1982 at the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines by Conference on the Analysis of Panel Data on Incomes( Book )

6 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design by Frank A Cowell( Book )

10 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into individual distributions) or from the point of view of sample design. The different types of weights have different implications for the sampling distribution of estimators of welfare indices

The definition of lifetime income by Frank A Cowell( Book )

1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 32 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Income maintenance schemes under wage-rate uncertainty by Frank A Cowell( Book )

2 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Income tax incidence in an ageing population : an examination of the measurement of income redistribution by Frank A Cowell( Book )

5 editions published between 1974 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The measurement of poverty : an experimental questionnaire investigation by Yoram Amiel( Book )

6 editions published between 1994 and 1997 in English and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Engañar al Estado : un análisis económico de la evasión by Frank A Cowell( Book )

3 editions published in 1995 in Spanish and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La evasión fiscal es una clase muy específica de delito económico, unido a los instrumentos de control fiscal que los gobiernos intentan utilizar para llevar a cabo su política económica

Income mobility : a robust approach by Frank A Cowell( Book )

7 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On the measurement of polarisation : a questionnaire study by Yoram Amiel( )

4 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994)and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptionsof income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out using aquestionnaire-experimental approach that combines both paper questionnaires and onlineinteractive techniques. The responses suggest that important axioms which serveto differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased bipolarisation - as well asother distinctive features of polarisation, i.e. the non-monotonous behaviour attributedto polarisation, are not widely accepted

Thinking about inequality by Frank A Cowell( Book )

4 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide