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Different models to study the wealth distribution in an artificial society have considered a transactional dynamics as the driving force. Those models include a risk aversion factor, but also a finite probability of favoring the poorer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Fuentes , M. N. Kuperman , J. R. Iglesias

A class of conserved models of wealth distributions are studied where wealth (or money) is assumed to be exchanged between a pair of agents in a population like the elastically colliding molecules of a gas exchanging energy. All sorts of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Abhijit Kar Gupta

We study the model of interacting agents proposed by Chatterjee et al that allows agents to both save and exchange wealth. Closed equations for the wealth distribution are developed using a mean field approximation. We show that when all…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Przemyslaw Repetowicz , Stefan Hutzler , Peter Richmond

The recent book by T. Piketty (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) promoted the important issue of wealth inequality. In the last twenty years, physicists and mathematicians developed models to derive the wealth distribution using discrete…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Bertram Düring , Nicos Georgiou , Enrico Scalas

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

This paper investigates the emergence of wealth inequality through a minimalist kinetic exchange model that incorporates two fundamental economic features: fixed-amount transactions and hard budget constraints. In contrast to the maximum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-12 Jihyuan Liuh

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

An important class of economic models involve agents whose wealth changes due to transactions with other agents. Several authors have pointed out an analogy with kinetic theory, which describes molecules whose momentum and energy changes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-22 Bruce M. Boghosian

This study is a detailed analysis of Speculation Game, a minimal agent-based model of financial markets, in which the round-trip trading and the dynamic wealth evolution with variable trading volumes are implemented. Instead of herding…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-10 Kei Katahira , Yu Chen

We investigate the unbiased model for money exchanges: agents give at random time a dollar to one another (if they have one). Surprisingly, this dynamics eventually leads to a geometric distribution of wealth (shown empirically by…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Fei Cao , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

This paper studies the trading volumes and wealth distribution of a novel agent-based model of an artificial financial market. In this model, heterogeneous agents, behaving according to the Von Neumann and Morgenstern utility theory, may…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-09-09 Pietro DeLellis , Franco Garofalo , Francesco Lo Iudice , Elena Napoletano

We propose a kinetic model to describe the dynamical evolution of wealth and knowledge in national and global markets, starting from a microscopic description of individual interactions. The model is built upon interaction rules that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Marzia Bisi , Martina Conte , Maria Groppi

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

In this work, we investigate a biased dollar exchange model with collective debt limit, in which agents picked at random (with a rate depending on the amount of dollars they have) give at random time a dollar to another agent being picked…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Fei Cao , Stephanie Reed

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

This paper is concerned with general spatially explicit versions of three stochastic models for the dynamics of money that have been introduced and studied numerically by statistical physicists: the uniform reshuffling model, the immediate…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Nicolas Lanchier , Stephanie Reed

We propose in this work a kinetic wealth-exchange model of economic growth by introducing saving as a non consumed fraction of production. In this new model, which starts also from microeconomic arguments, it is found that economic…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-07 D. S. Quevedo , C. J. Quimbay

Financial markets display scale-free behavior in many different aspects. The power-law behavior of part of the distribution of individual wealth has been recognized by Pareto as early as the nineteenth century. Heavy-tailed and scale-free…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2009-06-03 M. Ebert , W. Paul

Various multi-agent models of wealth distributions defined by microscopic laws regulating the trades, with or without a saving criterion, are reviewed. We discuss and clarify the equilibrium properties of the model with constant global…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-03-19 Marco Patriarca , Anirban Chakraborti , Kimmo Kaski , Guido Germano

Recently several authors have proposed stochastic evolutionary models for the growth of complex networks that give rise to power-law distributions. These models are based on the notion of preferential attachment leading to the ``rich get…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou