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Modern socio-economic systems are undergoing deep integration with artificial intelligence technologies. This paper constructs a heterogeneous agent-based modeling framework that incorporates both human workers and autonomous AI agents, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuxinyue Qian , Jun Liu

We develop a general framework to analyze the distribution functions of wealth and income. Within this framework we study wealth distribution in a society by using a model which turns on two-party trading for poor people while for rich…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Arnab Das , Sudhakar Yarlagadda

In the last decade, a large body of literature has been developed to explain the universal features of inequality in terms of income and wealth. By now, it is established that the distributions of income and wealth in various economies show…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-25 Anindya S. Chakrabarti , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

This paper presents a unified computational framework to examine how generative AI (GenAI) reshapes welfare, inequality, and diversity in content platform economies. By integrating welfare economics with agent-based simulations, we model…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yukun Zhang , Tianyang Zhang

In this work we consider an agent based model in order to study the wealth distribution problem where the interchange is determined with a symmetric zero sum game. Simultaneously, the agents update their way of play trying to learn the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-12 Juan Pablo Pinasco , Mauro Rodriguez Cartabia , Nicolas Saintier

This paper explores whether unconventional monetary policy operations have redistributive effects on household wealth. Drawing on household balance sheet data from the Wealth and Asset Survey, we construct monthly time series indicators on…

General Economics · Economics 2019-12-23 Anastasios Evgenidis , Apostolos Fasianos

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 analyze a coupled anonymized dataset collecting the mobile phone communication and bank transactions history of a large number of individuals. After mapping the social structure and introducing indicators of socioeconomic status,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Yannick Leo , Márton Karsai , Carlos Sarraute , Eric Fleury

Cooperation between individuals is emergent in all parts of society, yet mechanistic reasons for this emergence is ill understood in the literature. A specific example of this is insurance. Recent work has, though, shown that assuming the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Tobias Wand , Oliver Kamps , Benjamin Skjold

To demonstrate the usefulness of physical approaches for the study of realistic economic systems, we investigate the inequality of players' wealth in one of the most extensively studied econophysical models, namely, the minority game (MG).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. H. Ho , F. K. Chow , H. F. Chau

The article examines the impact of 16 key parameters of the Georgian economy on economic inequality, using the Perelman model and Ricci flow mathematical methods. The study aims to conduct a deep analysis of the impact of socio-economic…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-01-03 Davit Gondauri

We study a self-reflexive DSGE model with heterogeneous households, aimed at characterising the impact of economic recessions on the different strata of the society. Our framework allows to analyse the combined effect of income inequalities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-15 Federico Guglielmo Morelli , Michael Benzaquen , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Marco Tarzia

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

The Gini index is a function that attempts to measure the amount of inequality in the distribution of a finite resource throughout a population. It is commonly used in economics as a measure of inequality of income or wealth. We define a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Grant Kopitzke

It is known that asset exchange models with symmetric interaction between agents show either a Gibbs/log-normal distribution of assets among the agents or condensation of the entire wealth in the hands of a single agent, depending upon the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Sitabhra Sinha

The kinetic exchange model has gained popularity in the field of statistical mechanics for investigating wealth interaction. Traditionally, kinetic exchange models have been studied without considering preferential interactions. However, in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-26 Suchismita Banerjee

In this paper, we study multi-agent systems with decentralized resource allocations. Agents have local demand and resource supply, and are interconnected through a network designed to support sharing of the local resource; and the network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Yijun Chen , Razibul Islam , Elizabeth Ratnam , Ian R. Petersen , Guodong Shi

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

We introduce and discuss a system of one-dimensional kinetic equations describing the influence of higher education in the social stratification of a multi-agent society. The system is obtained by coupling a model for knowledge formation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-18 Giacomo Dimarco , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

A computational model for the distribution of wealth among the members of an ideal society is presented. It is determined that a realistic distribution of wealth depends upon two mechanisms: an asymmetric flux of wealth in trading…

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