TY - JOUR
T1 - Rigorous Results for the Distribution of Money on Connected Graphs
AU - Lanchier, Nicolas
AU - Reed, Stephanie
N1 - Funding Information:
Research of Nicolas Lanchier is supported in part by NSA Grant MPS-14-040958.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - This paper is concerned with general spatially explicit versions of three stochastic models for the dynamics of money that have been introduced and studied numerically by statistical physicists: the uniform reshuffling model, the immediate exchange model and the model with saving propensity. All three models consist of systems of economical agents that consecutively engage in pairwise monetary transactions. Computer simulations performed in the physics literature suggest that, when the number of agents and the average amount of money per agent are large, the limiting distribution of money as time goes to infinity approaches the exponential distribution for the first model, the gamma distribution with shape parameter two for the second model and a distribution similar but not exactly equal to a gamma distribution whose shape parameter depends on the saving propensity for the third model. The main objective of this paper is to give rigorous proofs of these conjectures and also extend these conjectures to generalizations of the first two models and a variant of the third model that include local rather than global interactions, i.e., instead of choosing the two interacting agents uniformly at random from the system, the agents are located on the vertex set of a general connected graph and can only interact with their neighbors.
AB - This paper is concerned with general spatially explicit versions of three stochastic models for the dynamics of money that have been introduced and studied numerically by statistical physicists: the uniform reshuffling model, the immediate exchange model and the model with saving propensity. All three models consist of systems of economical agents that consecutively engage in pairwise monetary transactions. Computer simulations performed in the physics literature suggest that, when the number of agents and the average amount of money per agent are large, the limiting distribution of money as time goes to infinity approaches the exponential distribution for the first model, the gamma distribution with shape parameter two for the second model and a distribution similar but not exactly equal to a gamma distribution whose shape parameter depends on the saving propensity for the third model. The main objective of this paper is to give rigorous proofs of these conjectures and also extend these conjectures to generalizations of the first two models and a variant of the third model that include local rather than global interactions, i.e., instead of choosing the two interacting agents uniformly at random from the system, the agents are located on the vertex set of a general connected graph and can only interact with their neighbors.
KW - Distribution of money
KW - Econophysics
KW - Immediate exchange model
KW - Interacting particle systems
KW - Uniform reshuffling
KW - Uniform saving
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U2 - 10.1007/s10955-018-2024-y
DO - 10.1007/s10955-018-2024-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044333674
SN - 0022-4715
VL - 171
SP - 727
EP - 743
JO - Journal of Statistical Physics
JF - Journal of Statistical Physics
IS - 4
ER -