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Explicit decay rate for the Gini index in the repeated averaging model

  • Fei Cao*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We investigate the repeated averaging model for money exchanges: two agents picked uniformly at random share half of their wealth to each other. It is intuitively convincing that a Dirac distribution of wealth (centered at the initial average wealth) will be the long time equilibrium for this dynamics. In other words, the Gini index should converge to zero. To better understand this dynamics, we investigate its limit as the number of agents goes to infinity by proving the so-called propagation of chaos, which links the stochastic agent-based dynamics to a (limiting) nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE). This deterministic description has a flavor of the classical Boltzmann equation arising from statistical mechanics of dilute gases. We prove its convergence towards its Dirac equilibrium distribution by showing that the associated Gini index of the wealth distribution converges to zero with an explicit rate.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3583-3596
Number of pages14
JournalMathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
Volume46
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Mar 2023
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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© 2022 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

  • agent-based model
  • econophysics
  • Gini index
  • propagation of chaos
  • repeated averaging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics
  • General Engineering

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