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Two Fractal Overlap Time Series: Earthquakes and Market Crashes
Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Arnab Chatterjee, Pratip Bhattacharyya
We find prominent similarities in the features of the time series for the (model earthquakes or) overlap of two Cantor sets when one set moves with uniform relative velocity over t…
The Kolkata Paise Restaurant Problem and Resource Utilization
Anindya-Sundar Chakrabarti, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Arnab Chatterjee +1
We study the dynamics of the "Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem". The problem is the following: In each period, N agents have to choose between N restaurants. Agents have a common r…
A Brief History of Economics: An Outsider's Account
Bikas K Chakrabarti
A dangerously brief history of the developments of the main ideas in economics, as observed by a physicist, is given. This was published in 'Econophysics of Stock and Other Markets…
Kinetic Exchange Models for Income and Wealth Distributions
Arnab Chatterjee, Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Increasingly, a huge amount of statistics have been gathered which clearly indicates that income and wealth distributions in various countries or societies follow a robust pattern,…
Kolkata Restaurant Problem as a generalised El Farol Bar Problem
Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Generalisation of the El Farol bar problem to that of many bars here leads to the Kolkata restaurant problem, where the decision to go to any restaurant or not is much simpler (dep…
Economic Inequality: Is it Natural?
Arnab Chatterjee, Sitabhra Sinha, Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Mounting evidences are being gathered suggesting that income and wealth distribution in various countries or societies follow a robust pattern, close to the Gibbs distribution of e…