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In the manuscript, we are interested in using kinetic theory to better understand the time evolution of wealth distribution and their large scale behavior such as the evolution of inequality (e.g. Gini index). We investigate three type of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Fei Cao , Sebastien Motsch

Firm growth process in the developing economies is known to produce divergence in their growth path giving rise to bimodality in the size distribution. Similar bimodality has been observed in wealth distribution as well. Here, we introduce…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-06-15 Anindya S. Chakrabarti

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

We report the numerical results for the steady state income or wealth distribution $P(m)$ and the resulting inequality measures (Gini $g$ and Kolkata $k$ indices) in the kinetic exchange models of market dynamics. We study the variations of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-08 Sanjukta Paul , Sudip Mukherjee , Bijin Joseph , Asim Ghosh , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

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

Asset exchange models (AEMs) provide a physics-inspired framework for studying wealth formation. These models capture wealth distribution dynamics via pairwise money exchanges, yielding steady-state distributions from exponential to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-30 Joel Wagner , Siew Ann Cheong , Viola Priesemann

It has been pointed out by Patriarca et al. (2005) that the power-law tailed equilibrium distribution in heterogeneous kinetic exchange models with a distributed saving parameter can be resolved as a mixture of Gamma distributions…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-10-17 Adams Vallejos , Ignacio Ormazabal , Felix A. Borotto , Hernan F. Astudillo

We study a risk-sharing economy where an arbitrary number of heterogenous agents trades an arbitrary number of risky assets subject to quadratic transaction costs. For linear state dynamics, the forward-backward stochastic differential…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-11-30 Johannes Muhle-Karbe , Xiaofei Shi , Chen Yang

Many models of market dynamics make use of the idea of conservative wealth exchanges among economic agents. A few years ago an exchange model using extremal dynamics was developed and a very interesting result was obtained: a self-generated…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 L. A. Braunstein , P. A. Macri , J. R. Iglesias

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

In this manuscript, we develop and analyze a continuous version of the well-known Bennati-Dragulescu-Yakovenko (BDY) dollar-exchange discrete model. Starting from the conservative BDY exchange mechanism, we rely on kinetic theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Fei Cao , Nadia Loy

In this paper we introduce kinetic equations for the evolution of the probability distribution of two goods among a huge population of agents. The leading idea is to describe the trading of these goods by means of some fundamental rules in…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-06-11 G. Toscani , C. Brugna , S. Demichelis

We introduce a class of Kac-like kinetic equations on the real line, with general random collisional rules, which include as particular cases models for wealth redistribution in an agent-based market or models for granular gases with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Federico Bassetti , Lucia Ladelli , Giuseppe Toscani

We have studied numerically the statistical mechanics of the dynamic phenomena, including money circulation and economic mobility, in some transfer models. The models on which our investigations were performed are the basic model proposed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Yougui Wang , Ning Ding

Explaining empirically observed wealth and income distributions, featuring power-law tails alongside gamma or log-normal bulk shapes, challenges models that focus on either pairwise competition or individual investment mechanisms. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-19 Yuri Ono , Atsushi Ishida

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

Statistical evaluations of the economic mobility of a society are more difficult than measurements of the income distribution, because they require to follow the evolution of the individuals' income for at least one or two generations. In…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-01 Maria Letizia Bertotti , Giovanni Modanese

We briefly review results on nonlinear kinetic equation of Boltzmann type which describe the evolution of wealth in a simple agents market. The mathematical structure of the underlying kinetic equations allows to use well-known techniques…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-28 Giuseppe Toscani

Pareto law, which states that wealth distribution in societies have a power-law tail, has been a subject of intensive investigations in statistical physics community. Several models have been employed to explain this behavior. However, most…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-13 M. Ali Saif , Prashant M. Gade

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