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Stability of Pareto-Zipf Law in Non-Stationary Economies

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  • Sorin Solomon
  • Peter Richmond

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Generalized Lotka-Volterra (GLV) models extending the (70 year old) logistic equation to stochastic systems consisting of a multitude of competing auto-catalytic components lead to power distribution laws of the (100 year old) Pareto-Zipf type. In particular, when applied to economic systems, GLV leads to power laws in the relative individual wealth distribution and in the market returns. These power laws and their exponent alpha are invariant to arbitrary variations in the total wealth of the system and to other endogenous and exogenous factors. The measured value of the exponent alpha = 1.4 is related to built-in human social and biological constraints.

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  • Sorin Solomon & Peter Richmond, 2000. "Stability of Pareto-Zipf Law in Non-Stationary Economies," Papers cond-mat/0012479, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2001.
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    1. Ausloos, M. & Bronlet, Ph., 2003. "Strategy for investments from Zipf law(s)," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 324(1), pages 30-37.
    2. Solomon, Sorin & Richmond, Peter, 2001. "Power laws of wealth, market order volumes and market returns," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 299(1), pages 188-197.
    3. Mimkes, Jürgen, 2010. "Stokes integral of economic growth," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 389(8), pages 1665-1676.
    4. Navarro-Barrientos, Jesús Emeterio & Cantero-Álvarez, Rubén & Matias Rodrigues, João F. & Schweitzer, Frank, 2008. "Investments in random environments," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 387(8), pages 2035-2046.
    5. G. Yaari & D. Stauffer & S. Solomon, 2008. "Intermittency and Localization," Papers 0802.3541, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2008.
    6. Alan D. Zimm, 2005. "Derivation of a Logistic Equation for Organizations, and its Expansion into a Competitive Organizations Simulation," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 11(1), pages 37-57, May.
    7. Smirnov Alexander D., 2018. "Stochastic Logistic Model of the Global Financial Leverage," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 18(1), pages 1-20, January.
    8. Aleksejus Kononovicius & Valentas Daniunas, 2013. "Agent-based and macroscopic modeling of the complex socio-economic systems," Papers 1303.3693, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2013.

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    • C0 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General
    • C6 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling

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