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We present a minimal agent-based model of interacting agents characterized by their wealth to study taxation and inequality in a non-conservative economy. Wealth evolves through an extremal stochastic replacement process in which the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-05 Lautaro Giordano , Sebastian Gonçalves , José Roberto Iglesias , María Fabiana Laguna

We extend the exploration regarding dynamical approach of macroeconomic variables by tackling systematically expenditure using Statistical Physics models (for the first time to the best of our knowledge). Also, using polynomial distribution…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-03-29 Elvis Oltean , Fedor Kusmartsev

Scaling properties in financial fluctuations are reviewed from the standpoint of statistical physics. We firstly show theoretically that the balance of demand and supply enhances fluctuations due to the underlying phase transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-10 H. Takayasu , M. Takayasu , M. P. Okazaki , K. Marumo , T. Shimizu

Studies of wealth inequality often assume that an observed wealth distribution reflects a system in equilibrium. This constraint is rarely tested empirically. We introduce a simple model that allows equilibrium but does not assume it. To…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-05-19 Yonatan Berman , Ole Peters , Alexander Adamou

A new kinetic theory Boltzmann-like collision term including correlations is proposed. In equilibrium it yields the one-particle distribution function in the form of a generalised-Lorentzian resembling but not being identical with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Treumann

We present a simplified model for the exploitation of finite resources by interacting agents, where each agent receives a random fraction of the available resources. An extremal dynamics ensures that the poorest agent has a chance to change…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Pianegonda , J. R. Iglesias , G. Abramson , J. L. Vega

We investigate the problem of wealth distribution from the viewpoint of asset exchange. Robust nature of Pareto's law across economies, ideologies and nations suggests that this could be an outcome of trading strategies. However, the simple…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-13 M. Ali Saif , Prashant M. Gade

The questions of justification of the Gibbs canonical distribution for systems with elastic impacts are discussed. A special attention is paid to the description of probability measures with densities depending on the system energy.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kozlov

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…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-06 Victor M. Yakovenko

This paper presents a model of the dynamics of the wage income distribution.

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-13 John Angle

This paper combines ideas from classical economics and modern finance with the general Lotka-Volterra models of Levy & Solomon to provide straightforward explanations of wealth and income distributions. Using a simple and realistic economic…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-05-30 Geoff Willis

Herein, we applied statistical physics to study incomes of three (low-, medium- and high-income) society classes instead of the two (low- and medium-income)classes studied so far. In the frame of the threshold nonlinear Langevin dynamics…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-01-29 Maciej Jagielski , Ryszard Kutner

We study a statistical model consisting of $N$ basic units which interact with each other by exchanging a physical entity, according to a given microscopic random law, depending on a parameter $\lambda$. We focus on the equilibrium or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Patriarca , Anirban Chakraborti , Kimmo Kaski

We have numerically simulated the ideal-gas models of trading markets, where each agent is identified with a gas molecule and each trading as an elastic or money-conserving two-body collision. Unlike in the ideal gas, we introduce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arnab Chatterjee , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , S. S. Manna

We briefly review results on nonlinear kinetic equation of Boltzmann type which describe the evolution of wealth in a simple agents market. The mathematical structure of the underlying kinetic equations allows to use well-known techniques…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-28 Giuseppe Toscani

We present a model in which we investigate the structure and evolution of a random network that connects agents capable of exchanging wealth. Economic interactions between neighbors can occur only if the difference between their wealth is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Agreda , K. Tucci

We introduce a system of kinetic equations describing an exchange market consisting of two populations of agents (dealers and speculators) expressing the same preferences for two goods, but applying different strategies in their exchanges.…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-03-14 Carlo Brugna , Giuseppe Toscani

The sustainability of cooperation is crucial for understanding the progress of societies. We study a repeated game in which individuals decide the share of their income to transfer to other group members. A central feature of our model is…

General Economics · Economics 2025-10-31 Pau Juan-Bartroli , Esteban Muñoz-Sobrado

In order to describe the properties of the observed distribution of wealth in a population, most economic models rely on the existence of an asymptotic equilibrium state. In addition, the process generating the equilibrium distribution is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-16 Valerio Astuti

We study a stochastic $N$-particle system representing economic agents in a population randomly exchanging their money, which is associated to a class of one-dimensional kinetic equations modelling the evolution of the distribution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Roberto Cortez