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Jaeseok Hur1, Meesoon Ha2, Hawoong Jeong1,3
1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Abstract:
We study the role of heterogeneous volatility in a networked wealth dynamics model and its impact on the wealth condensation transition. Extending the Bouchaud-Mézard framework, we introduce binary volatility in networks and investigate how its configuration affects the effective power-law tail exponent of the wealth distribution. Using a stochastic block model, we control the mixing between volatility groups and show that the effective exponent is governed not only by the global parameter Λ=2J/β^{2} but also by the volatility configuration in the network. We find that local interactions between nodes with different volatility induce the neutralization of group-wise exponents, which lowers the aggregate tail exponent and yields a condensation transition across γ_{c}=2. Our results identify volatility mixing as another control mechanism for wealth condensation and highlight the importance of noise heterogeneity in nonequilibrium systems on networks.
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