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Dynamics of money and income distributions

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  • Repetowicz, Przemysław
  • Hutzler, Stefan
  • Richmond, Peter

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We study the model of interacting agents proposed by Chakraborti and Chakrabarti [Eur. Phys. J. B 17 (2000) 167] that allows agents to both save and exchange wealth. Closed equations for the wealth distribution are developed using a mean field approximation.

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  • Repetowicz, Przemysław & Hutzler, Stefan & Richmond, Peter, 2005. "Dynamics of money and income distributions," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 356(2), pages 641-654.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:356:y:2005:i:2:p:641-654
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.04.010
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