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Econophysics, Statistical Mechanics Approach to

Statistical Finance 2023-06-06 v4 Statistical Mechanics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Physics and Society Applications

Abstract

This is a review article for Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, to be published by Springer http://refworks.springer.com/complexity/. The paper reviews statistical models for money, wealth, and income distributions developed in the econophysics literature since late 1990s.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3662,
  title  = {Econophysics, Statistical Mechanics Approach to},
  author = {Victor M. Yakovenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3662},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

24 pages, 11 figures, 151 citations. V.2: one reference added. V.3: many minor corrections, some references added. V.4: many minor stylistic corrections incorporated after receiving the proofs

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