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
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