Duality and stationary distributions of the "Immediate Exchange Model" and its generalizations

Abstract

We prove that the "Immediate Exchange Model" of econophysics has a discrete dual, where the duality functions are those connecting the Brownian Energy Process and the Symmetric Inclusion Process. As a consequence, we recover invariance of products of Gamma distributions with shape parameter 2, and obtain ergodicity results. Next we show similar properties of a generalized model, where the exchange fraction is $Beta(s,t)$ distributed (instead of uniform), and product measures with $\mbox{Gamma}(s+t)$ marginals are invariant. We prove that the discrete dual has the self-duality property, and prove full SU(1,1) for both the continuous and discrete model.