Analyzing money distributions in `ideal gas' models of markets
Abstract
We analyze an ideal gas like models of a trading market. We propose a new fit for the money distribution in the fixed or uniform saving market. For the marketwith quenched random saving factors for its agents we show that the steady state income () distribution in the model has a power law tail with Pareto index exactly equal to unity, confirming the earlier numerical studies on this model. We analyze the distribution of mutual money difference and also develop a master equation for the time development of . Precise solutions are then obtained in some special cases.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0505047,
title = {Analyzing money distributions in `ideal gas' models of markets},
author = {Arnab Chatterjee and Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Robin B. Stinchcombe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0505047},
year = {2008}
}
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6 pages, 1 eps figure, Springer class file svmult.cls; To appear in "Practical Fruits of Econophysics", Ed. H. Takayasu (Springer-Verlag Tokyo), Proc. 3rd Nikkei Econophysics Symposium, Tokyo, Nov 2004