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On Economic Applications of Information Theory

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In many of his writings, lectures and talks Pedro Gil emphasized the wide variety of economic applications of Information Theory. In this paper, as a tribute to him, we aim to provide some insight into this topic, mainly referred to income inequality, industrial concentration and economic forecasting.

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    In the case of the double quadratic inequality the Pigou-Dalton’s condition or progressive transfers principle holds under certain (non-restrictive) asssumptions.

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  1. Dpto. de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

    Rigoberto Pérez, Ana Jesús López, Covadonga Caso, Mercedes Alvargonzález & María Jesús Río

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  1. Liberbank, Oviedo, Spain

    Eduardo Gil

  2. Viajes El Corte Inglés, Oviedo, Spain

    Eva Gil

  3. Funl Media, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Juan Gil

  4. Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa y Didáctica de la Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

    María Ángeles Gil

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Pérez, R., López, A.J., Caso, C., Alvargonzález, M., Río, M.J. (2018). On Economic Applications of Information Theory. In: Gil, E., Gil, E., Gil, J., Gil, M. (eds) The Mathematics of the Uncertain. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73848-2_48

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