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How do individuals accumulate wealth as they interact economically? We outline the consequences of a simple microscopic model in which repeated pairwise exchanges of assets between individuals build the wealth distribution of a population.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-08-31 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

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

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

In this communication, some economic models given by functional mappings are addressed. These are models for random markets where agents trade by pairs and exchange their money in a random and conservative way. They display the exponential…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2014-07-25 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Elyas Shivanian , Jose-Luis Lopez

Aiming to describe the wealth distribution evolution, several models consider an ensemble of interacting economic agents that exchange wealth in binary fashion. Intriguingly, models that consider an unbiased market, that gives to each agent…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-30 Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso , Sebastián Gonçalves , José Roberto Iglesias

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

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

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-16 R. S. MacKay

A generalized continuous economic model is proposed for random markets. In this model, agents interact by pairs and exchange their money in a random way. A parameter controls the effectiveness of the transactions between the agents. We show…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-05-11 R. Lopez-Ruiz , E. Shivanian , S. Abbasbandy , J. L. Lopez

Gallice and Monz\'on (2019) present a natural environment that sustains full co-operation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of self-interested agents. They demonstrate that in a sequential public goods game, where agents…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-13 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Konstantinos Georgalos

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

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

The distribution of wealth among the members of a society is herein assumed to result from two fundamental mechanisms, trade and investment. An empirical distribution of wealth shows an abrupt change between the low-medium range, that may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Nicola Scafetta , Sergio Picozzi , Bruce J. West

Many models of market dynamics make use of the idea of wealth exchanges among economic agents. A simple analogy compares the wealth in a society with the energy in a physical system, and the trade between agents to the energy exchange…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-14 J. R. Iglesias

This paper considers the ideal gas-like model of trading markets, where each individual is identified as a gas molecule that interacts with others trading in elastic or money-conservative collisions. Traditionally this model introduces…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-06-13 Carmen Pellicer-Lostao , Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

A simple heuristic model, including the multiple exchanges between economic agents, is used to explain the mechanism of emerging and maintenance of social inequality in the market economy. The model allows calculating a density function of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Vladimir Pokrovskii

Econophysics provides a strategy for understanding the potential mechanisms underlying the anomalous distribution of wealth found in real societies. We present a computational nonlinear stochastic model for the distribution of wealth that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicola Scafetta , Bruce J. West , Sergio Picozzi

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

This paper examines a heterogeneous beliefs model in which there is a process that is only partially observed by the agents. The economy contains a risky asset producing dividends continuously in time. The dividends are observed by the…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-07-29 A. A. Brown

We propose a stochastic map model of economic dynamics. In the last decade, an array of observations in economics has been investigated in the econophysics literature, a major example being the universal features of inequality in terms of…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-27 Anindya S. Chakrabarti
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