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Many recent models of trade dynamics use the simple idea of wealth exchanges among economic agents in order to obtain a stable or equilibrium distribution of wealth among the agents. In particular, a plain analogy compares the wealth in a…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-30 J. R. Iglesias , R. M. C. de Almeida

Social and economic inequality is a plague of the XXI Century. It is continuously widening, as the wealth of a relatively small group increases and, therefore, the rest of the world shares a shrinking fraction of resources. This situation…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-03 José Roberto Iglesias , Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso , Sebastián Gonçalves

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

Simple agent based exchange models are a commonplace in the study of wealth distribution in an artificial economy. Generally, in a system that is composed of many agents characterized by their wealth and risk-aversion factor, two agents are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso , Sebastián Gonçalves , José Roberto Iglesias

Simple agent based exchange models are a commonplace in the study of wealth distribution of artificial societies. Generally, each agent is characterized by its wealth and by a risk-aversion factor, and random exchanges between agents allow…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 G. M. Caon , S. Goncalves , J. R. Iglesias

Empirical distributions of wealth and income can be reproduced using simplified agent-based models of economic interactions, analogous to microscopic collisions of gas particles. Building upon these models of freely interacting agents, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-10 Lennart Fernandes , Jacques Tempere

We discuss the equivalence between kinetic wealth-exchange models, in which agents exchange wealth during trades, and mechanical models of particles, exchanging energy during collisions. The universality of the underlying dynamics is shown…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-13 Anirban Chakraborti , Marco Patriarca

We present an agent-based model of economic exchange in a society composed of two groups, representing two social groups and with different internal protection rules for the poor agents. The goal is to address the emerging wealth…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-01 Thiago Dias , Sebastián Gonçalves

Wealth inequality remains a critical socioeconomic challenge, driven by systemic dynamics and self-reinforcing mechanisms that amplify the economic imbalances. Simplified models from statistical physics provide valuable insights into the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-16 Lautaro Giordano , Ignacio Cortés , Sebastian Gonçalves , María Fabiana Laguna

How can we limit wealth disparities while stimulating economic flows in sustainable societies? To examine the link between these concepts, we propose an econophysics asset exchange model with the surplus stock of the wealthy. The wealthy…

General Economics · Economics 2021-11-08 Takeshi Kato , Yoshinori Hiroi

This paper reviews recent attempts at modelling inequality of wealth as an emergent phenomenon of interacting-agent processes. We point out that recent models of wealth condensation which draw their inspiration from molecular dynamics have,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Lux

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 present an agent-based model of microscopic wealth exchange in a dynamic network to study the topological features associated with economic inequality. The model evolves through two alternating processes, the conservative exchange of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-30 Gustavo Kohlrausch , Sebastián Gonçalves

Binary kinetic exchange models, where money is shuffled between two agents at a time, reproduce the Boltzmann Gibbs exponential wealth distribution but cannot address the multi party trades common in real markets. We generalize the exchange…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-28 Suchismita Banerjee

We analyze a conservative market model for the competition among economic agents in a close society. A minimum dynamics ensures that the poorest agent has a chance to improve its economic welfare. After a transient, the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pianegonda , J. R. Iglesias

A simple computer simulation model of a closed market on a fixed network with free flow of goods and money is introduced. The model contains only two variables : the amount of goods and money beside the size of the system. An initially flat…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-09-25 Marcel Ausloos , Andrzej Pekalski

We introduce a simple model of economy, where the time evolution is described by an equation capturing both exchange between individuals and random speculative trading, in such a way that the fundamental symmetry of the economy under an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Marc Mezard

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

A dynamical model of capital exchange is introduced in which a specified amount of capital is exchanged between two individuals when they meet. The resulting time dependent wealth distributions are determined for a variety of exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Ispolatov , P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

The "Money Exchange Model" is a type of agent-based simulation model used to study how wealth distribution and inequality evolve through monetary exchanges between individuals. The primary focus of this model is to identify the limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Hironobu Sakagawa
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