In this paper, several properties of the multivariate Pareto (IV) distribution introduced by B. C. Arnold (Pareto Distributions, International Cooperative Publ. House, FairIand, MD) are studied. It is shown that in the multivariate Pareto (IV), if all the inequality parameters are the same, then some properties analogous to those of the multivariate Pareto (II) can still be derived. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.