Finding Equilibrium in Some Economics and Game Models

Igor Griva () and Roman Polyak ()
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Igor Griva: George Mason University
Roman Polyak: George Mason University

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2025, vol. 207, issue 2, No 11, 34 pages

Abstract: Abstract We consider numerical aspects of finding classical J. Nash’s equilibrium in concave n-persons game, nonlinear equilibrium (NE), as an alternative to primal and dual linear programming (LP) problems, and recently introduced nonlinear production-consumption equilibrium (NPCE). The problems are particular cases of a general nonlinear equilibrium problem, which is equivalent to a variational inequality (VI). The corresponding VIs have simple feasible sets, that the projection on them is a low cost operation. Therefore, we apply two projection methods for finding the equilibrium: pseudo-gradient projection (PGP) and extra pseudo-gradient (EPG). We present and analyze results obtained on random generated sets of these three classes of problems. The obtained results show expected advantages of the EPG over PGP. What is most important: the number of iterations requited by EPG method to find an approximation for the equilibrium with a given accuracy grows linearly with the number of products in case of NE and NPCE, or with the number of active strategies in case of J. Nash’s equilibrium. The number of operations, or solution time grows as a cube of the corresponding parameters. These results corroborate the complexity bounds established in [18–20] under reasonable assumptions on the input data.

Keywords: Nonlinear Equilibrium; Production-consumption; John Nash’s equilibrium; Extra pseudo-gradient method; 9108; 9110 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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