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. 2013 Mar 6;8(3):e58270. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058270

Figure 4. Market spatial structures resulting from the degree of information sharing.

Figure 4

Each plot is a spatial distribution of the agents on the two-dimensional L×L lattice. Panel (A) with k/N = 0 represents no information sharing, panel (B) has k/N = 0.10 and panel (C) has k/N = 0.99. The agents scatter on the lattice without agglomeration in Panel (A). The distribution of the agents in Panel (B) appears to be less scattered than that in Panel (A), and several small clusters were observed. Only in Panel (C) can we observe the agglomeration of the agents into obvious clusters. This finding shows that the more information sharing there is, the more likely it is that economic centers will form.