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Phys. Rev. E 71, 046135 (2005) [8 pages]

Power law distribution of wealth in population based on a modified Equíluz-Zimmermann model

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Yan-Bo Xie, Bing-Hong Wang*, Bo Hu, and Tao Zhou
Department of Modern Physics and The Nonlinear Science Center, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

Received 16 May 2004; revised 3 January 2005; published 22 April 2005

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.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046135
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046135
PACS:
89.90.+n, 02.50.Le, 64.60.Cn, 87.10.+e

*Electronic address: bhwang@ustc.edu.cn