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Introducing Chaos in Economic Gas-like Models

Trading and Market Microstructure 2009-04-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

This paper considers ideal gas-like models of trading markets, where each agent is identified as a gas molecule that interacts with others trading in elastic or money-conservative collisions. Traditionally, these models introduce different rules of random selection and exchange between pair agents. Unlike these traditional models, this work introduces a chaotic procedure able of breaking the pairing symmetry of agents (i,j)->(j,i). Its results show that, the asymptotic money distributions of a market under chaotic evolution can exhibit a transition from Gibbs to Pareto distributions, as the pairing symmetry is progressively broken.

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@article{arxiv.0904.0344,
  title  = {Introducing Chaos in Economic Gas-like Models},
  author = {C. Pellicer-Lostao and R. Lopez-Ruiz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0344},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

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