5 papers
Does a rising tide lift all boats? A wealth exchange model on a dynamic network with economic growth
Gustavo L. Kohlrausch, Sebastian Gonçalves
Wealth inequality, although an age-old problem, has seen a substantial rise since the early XXI century. The distributions of wealth and income across countries follow a universal…
Patterns in a Warming Ocean: Stylized Spectral Facts on Sea Surface Temperature
Roberto da Silvaa, Eliseu Venites Filho, Eduardo V. Stock +1
Capturing stylized facts and their evolution is essential for understanding the impact of climate change on complex environmental systems. In this work, we investigate the spectral…
Bipartite structure and dynamics of political corruption networks
Monica V. Prates, Arthur A. B. Pessa, Sebastian Goncalves +2
Political corruption is inherently an affiliation process linking agents to corruption cases; yet it is often studied via one-mode projections that connect co-offenders within the…
The Inequity of Consumption-Based Tax Systems
Thiago Dias, José Roberto Iglesias, Sebastián Gonçalves
This study examines the lack of redistributive effectiveness of consumption-based tax systems with respect to social fairness. Through numerical simulations, we explore the wealth…
Inequality in a model of capitalist economy
Jhordan Silveira Borba, Sebastian Gonçalves, Celia Anteneodo
We analyze inequality aspects of the agent-based model of capitalist economy named it Social Architecture of Capitalism that has been introduced by Ian Wright. The model contemplat…