Master equation for a kinetic model of trading market and its analytic solution
Other Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Physics and Society
Trading and Market Microstructure
Abstract
We analyze an ideal gas like model of a trading market with quenched random saving factors for its agents and 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. The analysis starts with the development of a master equation for the time development of . Precise solutions are then obtained in some special cases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0501413,
title = {Master equation for a kinetic model of trading market and its analytic solution},
author = {Arnab Chatterjee and Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Robin B. Stinchcombe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0501413},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 eps figures, RevTeX4, corrected final version