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ODE models of wealth concentration and taxation
Bruce Boghosian, Christoph Börgers
We refer to an individual holding a non-negligible fraction of the country's total wealth as an oligarch. We explain how a model due to Boghosian et al. can be used to explore the…
A new probabilistic analysis of the yard-sale model
Christoph Börgers, Claude Greengard
In Chakraborti's yard-sale model of an economy, identical agents engage in trades that result in wealth exchanges, but conserve the combined wealth of all agents and each agent's e…
ODEs and Mandatory Voting
Christoph Börgers, Natasa Dragovic, Anna Haensch +2
This paper presents mathematics relevant to the question whether voting should be mandatory. Assuming a static distribution of voters' political beliefs, we model how politicians m…
A blue sky bifurcation in the dynamics of political candidates
Christoph Börgers, Bruce Boghosian, Natasa Dragovic +1
Political candidates often shift their positions opportunistically in hopes of capturing more votes. When there are only two candidates, the best strategy for each of them is often…