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Equal opportunities lead to maximum wealth inequality
Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso, Sebastián Gonçalves, José Roberto Iglesias
If wealthier people have advantages in having higher returns than poor, inequality will unequivocally increase, but is equal opportunity enough to prevent it? According to several…
Wealth concentration in systems with unbiased binary exchanges
Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso, Sebastián Gonçalves, José Roberto Iglesias
Aiming to describe the wealth distribution evolution, several models consider an ensemble of interacting economic agents that exchange wealth in binary fashion. Intriguingly, model…
Inequality, a scourge of the XXI century
José Roberto Iglesias, Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso, Sebastián Gonçalves
Social and economic inequality is a plague of the XXI Century. It is continuously widening, as the wealth of a relatively small group increases and, therefore, the rest of the worl…
Wealth Distribution Models with Regulations: Dynamics and Equilibria
Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso, Sebastián Gonçalves, José Roberto Iglesias
Simple agent based exchange models are a commonplace in the study of wealth distribution in an artificial economy. Generally, in a system that is composed of many agents characteri…
Epidemic spreading in multiplex networks influenced by opinion exchanges on vaccination
L. G. Alvarez-Zuzek, Cristian E. La Rocca, J. R. Iglesias +1
We study the changes of opinions about vaccination together with the evolution of a disease. In our model we consider a multiplex network consisting of two layers. One of the layer…
Propagation of Systemic Risk in Interbank Networks
Vanessa Hoffmann de Quadros, Juan Carlos González-Avella, José Roberto Iglesias
This work explores the characteristics of financial contagion in networks whose links distributions approaches a power law, using a model that defines banks balance sheets from inf…