• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Polarization Orderings and New Classes of Polarization Indices
  • Contributor: Wang, You‐Qiang; Tsui, Kai‐Yuen
  • imprint: Wiley, 2000
  • Published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2 (2000) 3, Seite 349-363
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/1097-3923.00042
  • ISSN: 1097-3923; 1467-9779
  • Keywords: Economics and Econometrics ; Sociology and Political Science ; Finance
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  • Description: <jats:p>This paper explores equivalent formulations of the polarization ordering first proposed by Foster and Wolfson. Motivated by the class of polarization indices proposed by Foster and Wolfson, we have developed a class of generalized Foster‐Wolfson indices. In addition, a new class of polarization indices satisfying a set of desirable axioms is also derived.</jats:p>