Convergence to the Mean Field Game Limit: A Case Study

Marcel Nutz, Jaime San Martin and Xiaowei Tan

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Abstract: We study the convergence of Nash equilibria in a game of optimal stopping. If the associated mean field game has a unique equilibrium, any sequence of $n$-player equilibria converges to it as $n\to\infty$. However, both the finite and infinite player versions of the game often admit multiple equilibria. We show that mean field equilibria satisfying a transversality condition are limit points of $n$-player equilibria, but we also exhibit a remarkable class of mean field equilibria that are not limits, thus questioning their interpretation as "large $n$" equilibria.

Date: 2018-06, Revised 2019-05
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