Power law distribution of wealth in population based on a modified Equíluz-Zimmermann model
Abstract
We propose a money-based model for the power law distribution (PLD) of wealth in an economically interacting population. It is introduced as a modification of the Equíluz and Zimmermann (EZ) model for crowding and information transmission in financial markets. Still, it must be stressed that in the EZ model a PLD without exponential correction is obtained only for a particular parameter, while our pattern will give the exact PLD within a wide range. The PLD exponent depends on the model parameters in a nontrivial way and is exactly calculated in this paper. The numerical results are in excellent agreement with the analytic prediction, and also comparable with empirical data of wealth distribution.
- Publication:
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Physical Review E
- Pub Date:
- April 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046135
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0405288
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhRvE..71d6135X
- Keywords:
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- 89.90.+n;
- 02.50.Le;
- 64.60.Cn;
- 87.10.+e;
- Other topics in areas of applied and interdisciplinary physics;
- Decision theory and game theory;
- Order-disorder transformations;
- statistical mechanics of model systems;
- General theory and mathematical aspects;
- Other
- E-Print:
- 5 pages and 4 figures