• DocumentCode
    2572479
  • Title

    Mean field equilibrium in dynamic games with complementarities

  • Author

    Adlakha, Sachin ; Johari, Ramesh

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    15-17 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    6633
  • Lastpage
    6638
  • Abstract
    We study stochastic dynamic games with a large number of players, where players are coupled via their payoff functions. We consider mean field equilibrium for such games: in such an equilibrium, each player reacts to only the long run average state of other players. In this paper we focus on a special class of stochastic games, where a player experiences strategic complementarities from other players; formally the payoff of a player has increasing differences between her own state and the aggregate empirical distribution of the states of other players. We find necessary conditions for the existence of a mean field equilibrium in such games. Furthermore, we show that there exist a “largest” and “smallest” equilibrium among all those where the equilibrium strategy used by a player is nondecreasing.
  • Keywords
    stochastic games; complementarities; mean field equilibrium; payoff functions; stochastic dynamic games; Convex functions; Games; Kernel; Lattices; Markov processes; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control (CDC), 2010 49th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Atlanta, GA
  • ISSN
    0743-1546
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7745-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.2010.5717416
  • Filename
    5717416