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For a class of stochastic dynamical models of exchange economies that we call ``fully connected Cobb-Douglas'', the paper proves convergence of the probability distribution to an equilibrium, in total variation metric as time goes to…

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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

Arguing about the equilibrium distribution of continuous-time Markov chains can be vital for showing properties about the underlying systems. For example in biological systems, bistability of a chemical reaction network can hint at its…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Tugrul Dayar , Holger Hermanns , David Spieler , Verena Wolf

This paper studies the income fluctuation problem with capital income risk (i.e., dispersion in the rate of return to wealth). Wealth returns and labor earnings are allowed to be serially correlated and mutually dependent. Rewards can be…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2018-12-05 Qingyin Ma , John Stachurski , Alexis Akira Toda

Nonlinear Markov chains with finite state space have been introduced in Kolokoltsov (2010). The characteristic property of these processes is that the transition probabilities do not only depend on the state, but also on the distribution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Berenice Anne Neumann

We construct a model of an exchange economy in which agents trade assets contingent on an observable signal, the probability of which depends on public opinion. The agents in our model are replaced occasionally and each person updates…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-28 Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Roger Farmer

We briefly review statistical models for the probability distribution of money developed in the econophysics literature since the late 1990s. In these models, economic transactions are modeled as random transfers of money between the agents…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-03-14 Victor M. Yakovenko

The dynamics of generalized Lotka-Volterra systems is studied by theoretical techniques and computer simulations. These systems describe the time evolution of the wealth distribution of individuals in a society, as well as of the market…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ofer Malcai , Ofer Biham , Peter Richmond , Sorin Solomon

We find the explicit expression for the equilibrium wealth distribution of the Directed Random Market process, recently introduced by Mart\'inez-Mart\'inez and L\'opez-Ruiz, which turns out to be a Gamma distribution with shape parameter…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-07 Guy Katriel

We focus on the problem of how wealth is distributed among the units of a networked economic system. We first review the empirical results documenting that in many economies the wealth distribution is described by a combination of…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Diego Garlaschelli , Maria I. Loffredo

A mean-field like stochastic evolution equation with growth and reset terms (LGGR model) is used to model wealth distribution in modern societies. The stationary solution of the model leads to an analytical form for the density function…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-14 Istvan Gere , Szabolcs Kelemen , Geza Toth , Tamas Biro , Zoltan Neda

This paper studies an interacting particle system of interest in econophysics inspired from a model introduced in the physics literature. The original model consists of the customers of a single bank characterized by their capital, and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Nicolas Lanchier , Stephanie Reed

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

High frequency data in finance have led to a deeper understanding on probability distributions of market prices. Several facts seem to be well stablished by empirical evidence. Specifically, probability distributions have the following…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jaume Masoliver , Miquel Montero , Josep M. Porra

We investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality in an economy where households have positional preferences, with the strength of the positional concern determined endogenously by inequality of wealth distribution in the society. We…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-07-02 Kirill Borissov , Nigar Hashimzade

Exponential distribution is ubiquitous in the framework of multi-agent systems. An alternative approach with an economic motivation to derive the exponential distribution in the framework of iterations in the space of distributions is…

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In the present paper, we identify several distributions from Physics and study their applicability to phenomena such as distribution of income, wealth, and expenditure. Firstly, we apply logistic distribution to these data and we find that…

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Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-04 David Rushing Dewhurst , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

The statistical mechanics approach to wealth distribution is based on the conservative kinetic multi-agent model for money exchange, where the local interaction rule between the agents is analogous to the elastic particle scattering…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-16 M. Andrecut

We present here a general framework, expressed by a system of nonlinear differential equations, suitable for the modelling of taxation and redistribution in a closed (trading market) society. This framework allows to describe the evolution…

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