Economy – Quantitative Finance – Statistical Finance
Scientific paper
2009-12-24
New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010)
Economy
Quantitative Finance
Statistical Finance
Accepted to New Journal of Physics. 27 pages (IOP preprint style), 8 figures. V.2: Updated figs. 3 and 8, many references adde
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/12/7/075032
Probability distributions of money, income, and energy consumption per capita are studied for ensembles of economic agents. The principle of entropy maximization for partitioning of a limited resource gives exponential distributions for the investigated variables. A non-equilibrium difference of money temperatures between different systems generates net fluxes of money and population. To describe income distribution, a stochastic process with additive and multiplicative components is introduced. The resultant distribution interpolates between exponential at the low end and power law at the high end, in agreement with the empirical data for USA. We show that the increase of income inequality in USA originates primarily from the increase of the income fraction going to the upper tail, which now exceeds 20% of the total income. Analyzing the data from the World Resources Institute, we find that the distribution of energy consumption per capita around the world can be approximately described by the exponential function. Comparing the data for 1990, 2000, and 2005, we discuss the effect of globalization on the inequality of energy consumption.
Banerjee Anand
Yakovenko Victor M.
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