Finite market size as a source of extreme wealth inequality and market instability

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 294, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 503-513

  Huang, Zhi Feng ^a   Solomon, Sorin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cut off; Finite size effect; Multiplicative process; Power law

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MARKET INSTABILITY; MULTIPLICATIVE PROCESS; WEALTH INEQUALITY;

MARKETING;

EID: 0035873017     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00113-3     Document Type: Article

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