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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

The addition of wealth-attained advantage (WAA) to the Yard-Sale Model (YSM) of asset exchange has been demonstrated to induce wealth condensation. In a model of WAA for which the bias is a continuous function of the wealth difference of…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-08-23 Bruce M. Boghosian , Adrian Devitt-Lee , Hongyan Wang

Persistent wealth inequality, where a small fraction of the population accumulates most resources while the majority remains economically vulnerable, is a widespread phenomenon. We investigate its underlying mechanisms using an agent-based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-16 Gastón Villafañe , Lautaro Giordano , María Fabiana Laguna

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

The spreading of Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the close link between economics and health in the context of emergency management. A widespread vaccination campaign is considered the main tool to contain the economic consequences. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-09 Emanuele Bernardi , Lorenzo Pareschi , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

We introduce a mean-field framework for the study of systems of interacting particles sharing a conserved quantity. The work generalises and unites the existing fields of asset-exchange models, often applied to socio-economic systems, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-14 Dominic T Robson , Andreas CW Baas , Alessia Annibale

We study a system of $N$ agents, whose wealth grows linearly, under the effect of stochastic resetting and interacting via a tax-like dynamics -- all agents donate a part of their wealth, which is, in turn, redistributed equally among all…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-11 Ion Santra

The so-called "Yard-Sale Model" of wealth distribution posits that wealth is transferred between economic agents as a result of transactions whose size is proportional to the wealth of the less wealthy agent. In recent work [B.M. Boghosian,…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-07-28 Bruce M. Boghosian

This paper presents a novel study on gas-like models for economic systems. The interacting agents and the amount of exchanged money at each trade are selected with different levels of randomness, from a purely random way to a more chaotic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-01-09 Carmen Pellicer-Lostao , Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

In this paper, we investigate the economic mobility in some money transfer models which have been applied into the research on wealth distribution. We demonstrate the mobility by recording the time series of agents' ranks and observing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Ning Ding , Ning Xi , Yougui Wang

Several problems arising in Economics and Finance are analyzed using concepts and quantitative methods from Physics. Here is the abridged abstact: Chapter 1: By analogy with energy, the equilibrium probability distribution of money must…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-10 Adrian A. Dragulescu

We implement a general numerical calculation that allows for a direct comparison between nonlinear Hamiltonian dynamics and the Boltzmann-Gibbs canonical distribution in Gibbs $\Gamma$-space. Using paradigmatic first-neighbor models,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fulvio Baldovin , Luis G. Moyano , Constantino Tsallis

Exponential distribution is ubiquitous in the framework of multi-agent systems. Usually, it appears as an equilibrium state in the asymptotic time evolution of statistical systems. It has been explained from very different perspectives. In…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-03-10 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Jose-Luis Lopez , Xavier Calbet

We develop a statistical framework for wealth allocation in which agents hold discrete units of wealth and macrostates are defined by how wealth is distributed across agents. The structure of the economic state space is characterized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-04 Korak Biswas

We consider a number of Artificial Chemistry models for economic activity and what consequences they have for the formation of economic inequality. We are particularly interested in what tax measures are effective in dampening economic…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-15 Wolfgang Banzhaf

An agent-based model of the economy is generalized to incorporate investment and guaranteed income mechanisms in addition to the exchange and distribution mechanisms considered in earlier models. We find realistic wealth distributions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Jan Tobochnik , Harvey Gould , William Klein

We report the numerical results for the steady state income or wealth distribution $P(m)$ and the resulting inequality measures (Gini $g$ and Kolkata $k$ indices) in the kinetic exchange models of market dynamics. We study the variations of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-08 Sanjukta Paul , Sudip Mukherjee , Bijin Joseph , Asim Ghosh , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

We present a numerical study of several inequality measures across two kinetic wealth exchange models with extreme inequality features (namely the Banerjee model, and the Chakraborti or Yard Sale model) and two earthquake simulating models…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-24 Shohini Sen , Suchismita Banerjee , Bikas K Chakrabarti

An heuristic model of the society, as an assembly of weakly interacting individuals, is discussed. The model allows to connect macroscopic phenomena with features of relations between individuals. Addressing to the problem of inequality, a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Vladimir Pokrovskii

We study the poor-biased model for money exchange introduced in [2]: agents are being randomly picked at a rate proportional to their current wealth, and then the selected agent gives a dollar to another agent picked uniformly at random.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Roberto Cortez , Fei Cao