This volume collects contemporary research on modelling income distribution and redistribution by Creedy and a number of other contributors. It should be of interest to academics and researchers with an interest in welfare economics and econometric theory.

This volume collects contemporary research on modelling income distribution and redistribution by Creedy and a number of other contributors. It opens with the main results of a research programme on distributional modelling using the generalized exponential family. It argues that the major advantages of this family are its flexiblility, particularly in handling multimodality, and the explicit link with structural demand-and-supply models. The book then goes on to discuss research on the effects of macroeconomic variables, particularly unemployment and inflation, on the personal distribution. The use of the generalized exponential family in this context is explored, as well as the use of mixture distributions. Finally, income distribution is examined in depth. This includes work on decomposing the redistribution effects of taxes into vertical, horizontal and reranking effects. The final chapters explore the Bayesian estimation of a range of social welfare, inequality and tax progressivity measures. Posterior distributions of the measures are obtained. This volume should be of interest to academics and researchers with an interest in welfare economics and econometric theory.

Generalized exponential distributions: nonlinear modelling using the generalized exponential family of distributions, "Bulletin of Economic Research", 50, no 3, pp 229-255 (with V.L. Martin) (1998)
a labour market equilibrium model of the personal distribution of earnings, "Journal of Income Distribution", 6, no 1, pp 127-144 (with J. Lye and V.L. Martin) (1996)
a model of the distribution of prices, "Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics", 56, pp 67-76 (with V.L. Martin) (1994)
a nonlinear model of the real US/UK exchange rate, "Journal of Applied Econometrics", 11, pp 669-689 (with J. Lye and V.L. Martin) (1996)
estimating the exponential family using grouped data - an application to the New Zealand income distribution, "New Zealand Economic Papers", 32, no 1, pp 19-39 (with A. Baker) (1998). Macro-variables and income distribution: macroeconomic variables and income distribution - conditional modelling with the generalized exponential, "Journal of Income Distribution", 9, pp 183-197 (with A. Baker) (2000)
macroeconomice variables and income inequality in New Zealand - an exploration using conditional mixture distributions, "New Zealand Economic Papers", 33, no 2, pp 59-79 (with A. Baker) (1999). Income redistribution: close equals and calculation of the vertical, horizontal and reranking effects of taxation, "Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics" (with J. van de Ven and P. Lambert) (2001)
decomposing redistribution effects of taxes and transfers in Australia - annual and lifetime measures, "Australian Economic Papers", 40, no 2, pp 185-198 (with J. van de Ven) (2001)
taxation, reranking and equivalence scales (with J. van de Ven)(2001)
the GST and vertical, horizontal and reranking effects of indirect taxation in Australia (2001)
non-uniform consumption taxes - a blunt redistribution instrument? (2001)
Bayesian estimation of social welfare and tax progressivity measures, "Empirical Economics" (with D. Chotikapanich) (2001)
Bayesian estimation of Atkinson inequality measures (with D. Chotikapanich) (2001).