Influence of saving propensity on the power-law tail of the wealth distribution

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 369, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 723-736

  Patriarca, Marco ^a   Chakraborti, Anirban ^b   Germano, Guido ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Economics; Econophysics; Power laws; Statistical mechanics; Wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ECONOPHYSICS; POWER-LAWS; RANDOM ALGORITHMS; WEALTH DISTRIBUTION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 33745684937     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.091     Document Type: Article

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