A Boltzmann-type approach to the formation of wealth distribution curves

Düring, Bertram; Matthes, Daniel; Toscani, Giuseppe

A Boltzmann-type approach to the formation of wealth distribution curves

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2008

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Düring, Bertram

Matthes, Daniel

Toscani, Giuseppe

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Open Access Green

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Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

Kinetic market models have been proposed recently to account for the redistribution of wealth in simple market economies. These models allow to develop a qualitative theory, which is based on methods borrowed from the kinetic theory of rarefied gases. The aim of these notes is to present a unifying approach to the study of the evolution of wealth in the largetime regime. The considered models are divided into two classes: the first class is such that the society s mean wealth is conserved, while for models of the second class, the mean wealth grows or decreases exponentially in time. In both cases, it is possible to classify the most important feature of the steady (or self-similar, respectively) wealth distributions, namely the fatness of the Pareto tail. We shall also discuss the tails dynamical stability in terms of the model parameters. Our results are derived by means of a qualitative analysis of the associated homogeneous Boltzmann equations. The key tools are suitable metrics for probability measures, and a concise description of the evolution of moments. A recent extension to economies, in which different groups of agents interact, is presented in detail. We conclude with numerical experiments that confirm the theoretical predictions.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

Econophysics, Boltzmann equation, wealth and income distributions, Pareto distribution, mixtures

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DÜRING, Bertram, Daniel MATTHES, Giuseppe TOSCANI, 2008. A Boltzmann-type approach to the formation of wealth distribution curves

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@techreport{During2008Boltz-12245,
  year={2008},
  series={CoFE-Diskussionspapiere / Zentrum für Finanzen und Ökonometrie},
  title={A Boltzmann-type approach to the formation of wealth distribution curves},
  number={2008/05},
  author={Düring, Bertram and Matthes, Daniel and Toscani, Giuseppe}
}

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