K curve

The K Curve depicts the inequality existing between different financial entities in terms of their attributes that determine their future growth and profitability.

What is K-curve?

• The K Curve depicts the inequality existing between different financial entities in terms of their attributes that determine their future growth and profitability.
• A K-shaped recovery occurs when, following a recession, different parts of the economy recover at different rates, times, or magnitudes.
• A K-shaped recovery leads to changes in the structure of the economy or the broader society as economic outcomes and relations are fundamentally changed before and after the recession.
• This type of recovery is called K-shaped because the path of different parts of the economy when charted together may diverge, resembling the two arms of the Roman letter "K."

How does the curve get changed?

• Widening of the arms of the ‘K’ would imply that the inequality is increasing, while narrowing of the span of the ‘K’ would mean the opposite.