The statistical mechanics approach to wealth distribution is based on the conservative kinetic multi-agent model for money exchange, where the local interaction rule between the agents is analogous to the elastic particle scattering process. Here, we discuss the role of a class of conservative local operators, and we show that, depending on the values of their parameters, they can be used to generate all the relevant distributions. We also show numerically that in order to generate the power-law tail an heterogeneous risk aversion model is required. By changing the parameters of these operators one can also fine tune the resulting distributions in order to provide support for the emergence of a more egalitarian wealth distribution.
We introduce and discuss optimal control strategies for kinetic models for wealth distribution in a simple market economy, acting to minimize the variance of the wealth density among the population. Our analysis is based on a finite time horizon approximation, or model predictive control, of the corresponding control problem for the microscopic agents' dynamic and results in an alternative theoretical approach to the taxation and redistribution policy at a global level. It is shown that in general the control is able to modify the Pareto index of the stationary solution of the corresponding Bo…
We propose in this work a kinetic wealth-exchange model of economic growth by introducing saving as a non consumed fraction of production. In this new model, which starts also from microeconomic arguments, it is found that economic transactions between pairs of agents leads the system to a macroscopic behavior where total wealth is not conserved and it is possible to have an economic growth which is assumed as the increasing of total production in time. This last macroeconomic result, that we find both numerically through a Monte Carlo based simulation method and analytically in the framework …
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 corresponding to particular subsets of agents. Here, we propose a new four-parameter statistical distribution which is a $κ$-deformation of the Generalized Gamma distribution with a power-law tail, based on the deformed exponential and logarithm functions introduced by Kaniadakis(2001). We found that this new distribution is also an extension to the $κ$-Generalized d…
Fokker-Planck Description of Wealth Dynamics and the Origin of Pareto's Law
所谓的财富分配的“庭院销售模型”假定，财富在经济主体之间转移是交易的结果，交易的规模与较不富裕的主体的财富成正比。在最近的工作中[B]。Boghosian，“Kinetics of Wealth and the Pareto Law”，{ \it Phys. Rev. E} { \bf 89}（2014）042804]，表明这导致了支配财富分配的福克-普朗克方程。随着财富再分配机制的增加，进一步表明，该模型导致了在形式上与帕累托定律非常相似的固定财富分配。本文给出了该Fokker-Planck方程的一种更为简单的推导方法。
The recent book by T. Piketty (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) promoted the important issue of wealth inequality. In the last twenty years, physicists and mathematicians developed models to derive the wealth distribution using discrete and continuous stochastic processes (random exchange models) as well as related Boltzmann-type kinetic equations. In this literature, the usual concept of equilibrium in Economics is either replaced or completed by statistical equilibrium. In order to illustrate this activity with a concrete example, we present a stylised random exchange model for the distr…
Role of Selective Interaction in Wealth Distribution
在我们的简化描述中，“财富”就是金钱（$m$）。研究了一种类似气体的货币模型的动力学理论，其中两个代理人选择性地相互作用（交易），并在他们之间交换一定数量的货币，使得他们的货币总和不变，从而所有代理人的总货币保持守恒。单个货币的概率分布（$P(m)$ vs. $m$）被认为受到某些选择性相互作用方式的影响。分布偏离玻尔兹曼-吉布斯指数分布，在某些情况下，分布出现幂律尾部，称为帕累托定律（$P(m) \propto m^{-(1+α)}$）。幂律在其他一些密切相关的守恒和离散模型中也得到了观察。讨论提供了数值支持，有一个挖掘到出现的幂律在这样的模型。
Social and economic inequality is a plague of the XXI Century. It is continuously widening, as the wealth of a relatively small group increases and, therefore, the rest of the world shares a shrinking fraction of resources. This situation has been predicted and denounced by economists and econophysicists. The latter ones have widely used models of market dynamics which consider that wealth distribution is the result of wealth exchanges among economic agents. A simple analogy relates the wealth in a society with the kinetic energy of the molecules in a gas, and the trade between agents to the e…
