Economy – Quantitative Finance – General Finance
Scientific paper
2008-02-29
Economy
Quantitative Finance
General Finance
Presented to the International Workshop and Conference on: Statistical Physics Approaches to Multi-disciplinary Problems, Janu
Scientific paper
10.1007/s12043-008-0156-3
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 both through a variational approach based on the minimization of the Boltzmann entropy and a complementary microscopic analysis of the collision dynamics of molecules in a gas. In various relevant cases the equilibrium distribution is the same for all these models, namely a gamma-distribution with suitably defined temperature and number of dimensions. This in turn allows one to quantify the inequalities observed in the wealth distributions and suggests that their origin should be traced back to very general underlying mechanisms: for instance, it follows that the smaller the fraction of the relevant quantity (e.g. wealth or energy) that agents can exchange during an interaction, the closer the corresponding equilibrium distribution is to a fair distribution.
Chakraborti Anirban
Patriarca Marco
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