Linear–Quadratic Mean-Field-Type Games: A Direct Method

Tyrone E. Duncan and Hamidou Tembine
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Tyrone E. Duncan: Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA
Hamidou Tembine: Learning and Game Theory Laboratory, New York University Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Games, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: In this work, a multi-person mean-field-type game is formulated and solved that is described by a linear jump-diffusion system of mean-field type and a quadratic cost functional involving the second moments, the square of the expected value of the state, and the control actions of all decision-makers. We propose a direct method to solve the game, team, and bargaining problems. This solution approach does not require solving the Bellman–Kolmogorov equations or backward–forward stochastic differential equations of Pontryagin’s type. The proposed method can be easily implemented by beginners and engineers who are new to the emerging field of mean-field-type game theory. The optimal strategies for decision-makers are shown to be in a state-and-mean-field feedback form. The optimal strategies are given explicitly as a sum of the well-known linear state-feedback strategy for the associated deterministic linear–quadratic game problem and a mean-field feedback term. The equilibrium cost of the decision-makers are explicitly derived using a simple direct method. Moreover, the equilibrium cost is a weighted sum of the initial variance and an integral of a weighted variance of the diffusion and the jump process. Finally, the method is used to compute global optimum strategies as well as saddle point strategies and Nash bargaining solution in state-and-mean-field feedback form.

Keywords: Nash bargaining solution; mean-field equilibrium; variance; direct method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C C7 C70 C71 C72 C73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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