Eur. Phys. J. B 54, 399-404 (2006)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2007-00011-1

Kinetic market models with single commodity having price fluctuations

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division and Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata, 700064, India

Corresponding authors: ^a arnab.chatterjee@saha.ac.in - ^b bikask.chakrabarti@saha.ac.in

Received: 8 September 2006
Revised: 5 December 2006
Published online: 13 January 2007

Abstract

We study here numerically the behavior of an ideal gas like model of markets having only one non-consumable commodity. We investigate the behavior of the steady-state distributions of money, commodity and total wealth, as the dynamics of trading or exchange of money and commodity proceeds, with local (in time) fluctuations in the price of the commodity. These distributions are studied in markets with agents having uniform and random saving factors. The self-organizing features in money distribution are similar to the cases without any commodity (or with consumable commodities), while the commodity distribution shows an exponential decay. The wealth distribution shows interesting behavior: gamma like distribution for uniform saving propensity and has the same power-law tail, as that of the money distribution, for a market with agents having random saving propensity.