Colloquium: Statistical mechanics of money, wealth, and income

VM Yakovenko, JB Rosser Jr - Reviews of modern physics, 2009 - APS
This Colloquium reviews statistical models for money, wealth, and income distributions
developed in the econophysics literature since the late 1990s. By analogy with the …

Econophysics review: II. Agent-based models

A Chakraborti, IM Toke, M Patriarca… - Quantitative …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This article is the second part of a review of recent empirical and theoretical developments
usually grouped under the heading Econophysics. In the first part, we reviewed the statistical …

[BOOK][B] Econophysics of income and wealth distributions

BK Chakrabarti, A Chakraborti, SR Chakravarty… - 2013 - books.google.com
The distribution of wealth and income is never uniform, and philosophers and economists
have tried for years to understand the reasons and formulate remedies for such inequalities …

Fokker–Planck equations in the modeling of socio-economic phenomena

G Furioli, A Pulvirenti, E Terraneo… - Mathematical Models and …, 2017 - World Scientific
We present and discuss various one-dimensional linear Fokker–Planck-type equations that
have been recently considered in connection with the study of interacting multi-agent …

Boltzmann and Fokker–Planck equations modelling opinion formation in the presence of strong leaders

B Düring, P Markowich… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We propose a mathematical model for opinion formation in a society that is built of two
groups, one group of 'ordinary'people and one group of 'strong opinion leaders'. Our …

Human behavior and lognormal distribution. A kinetic description

S Gualandi, G Toscani - … Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 2019 - World Scientific
In recent years, it has been increasing evidence that lognormal distributions are widespread
in physical and biological sciences, as well as in various phenomena of economics and …

Sparse stabilization and control of alignment models

M Caponigro, M Fornasier, B Piccoli… - Mathematical Models and …, 2015 - World Scientific
Starting with the seminal papers of Reynolds (1987), Vicsek et al.(1995), Cucker–Smale
(2007), there has been a lot of recent works on models of self-alignment and consensus …

Sparse stabilization and optimal control of the Cucker-Smale model

M Caponigro, M Fornasier, B Piccoli… - Mathematical Control and …, 2013 - hal.science
This article is mainly based on the work [7], and it is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of B.
Bonnard, held in Dijon in June 2012. We focus on a controlled Cucker--Smale model in finite …

Wealth distribution and collective knowledge: a Boltzmann approach

L Pareschi, G Toscani - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We introduce and discuss a nonlinear kinetic equation of Boltzmann type that describes the
influence of knowledge in the evolution of wealth in a system of agents that interact through …

Uniform propagation of chaos for a dollar exchange econophysics model

F Cao, R Cortez - European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2025 - cambridge.org
We study the poor-biased model for money exchange introduced in Cao & Motsch ((2023)
Kinet. Relat. Models 16 (5), 764–794.): agents are being randomly picked at a rate …