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This paper analyzes the equilibrium distribution of wealth in an economy where firms' productivities are subject to idiosyncratic shocks, returns on factors are determined in competitive markets, dynasties have linear consumption functions…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-06-11 Davide Fiaschi , Matteo Marsili

We analyze the household savings problem in a general setting where returns on assets, non-financial income and impatience are all state dependent and fluctuate over time. All three processes can be serially correlated and mutually…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-08-07 Qingyin Ma , John Stachurski , Alexis Akira Toda

The rich-get-richer mechanism (agents increase their ``wealth'' randomly at a rate proportional to their holdings) is often invoked to explain the Pareto power-law distribution observed in many physical situations, such as the degree…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 James P. Bagrow , Jie Sun , Daniel ben-Avraham

Excessive wealth concentration can undermine economic and social development. Random Asset Exchange (RAE) models provide valuable tools to investigate this phenomenon. Assuming that economic systems may operate optimally near the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Nicolás Vazquez Von Bibow , Juan I. Perotti

We develop a formalism to study linearized perturbations around the equilibria of a pure exchange economy. With the use of mean field theory techniques, we derive equations for the flow of products in an economy driven by heterogeneous…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-13 Samuel E. Vazquez , Simone Severini

In search of many social and economical systems, it is found that node strength distribution as well as degree distribution demonstrate the behavior of power-law with droop-head and heavy-tail. We present a new model for the growth of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Chuan-Ji Fu , Qing Ou , Wen Chen , Bing-Hong Wang , Ying-Di Jin , Yong-Wei Niu , Tao Zhou

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 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 study a system of $N$ agents, whose wealth grows linearly, under the effect of stochastic resetting and interacting via a tax-like dynamics -- all agents donate a part of their wealth, which is, in turn, redistributed equally among all…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-11 Ion Santra

We propose a set of conservative models in which agents exchange wealth with a preference in the choice of interacting agents in different ways. The common feature in all the models is that the temporary values of financial status of agents…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Sanchari Goswami , Parongama Sen

We study the role of heterogeneous volatility in a networked wealth dynamics model and its impact on the wealth condensation transition. Extending the Bouchaud--M{\'e}zard framework, we introduce binary volatility in networks and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-17 Jaeseok Hur , Meesoon Ha , Hawoong Jeong

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 study a modified version of a model previously proposed by Jackson and Wolinsky to account for communicating information and allocating goods in socioeconomic networks. In the model, the utility function of each node is given by a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Rui Carvalho , Giulia Iori

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

We introduce an auto-regressive model which captures the growing nature of realistic markets. In our model agents do not trade with other agents, they interact indirectly only through a market. Change of their wealth depends, linearly on…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-07-28 Urna Basu , P. K. Mohanty

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

Co-evolution exhibited by a network system, involving the intricate interplay between the dynamics of the network itself and the subsystems connected by it, is a key concept for understanding the self-organized, flexible nature of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-14 Takaaki Aoki , Toshio Aoyagi

The scale and terms of aggregate borrowing in an economy depend on the manner in which wealth is distributed across potential creditors with heterogeneous beliefs about the future. This distribution evolves over time as uncertainty is…

General Economics · Economics 2023-04-10 Bikramaditya Datta , Rajiv Sethi

I introduce a new way of decomposing the evolution of the wealth distribution using a simple continuous time stochastic model, which separates the effects of mobility, savings, labor income, rates of return, demography, inheritance, and…

General Economics · Economics 2022-11-29 Thomas Blanchet

We study the effect of the social stratification on the wealth distribution on a system of interacting economic agents that are constrained to interact only within their own economic class. The economical mobility of the agents is related…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 M. F. Laguna , S. Risau Gusman , J. R. Iglesias