18th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications
Grenoble, France, 9 — 12 juillet 2018
18th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications
Grenoble, France, 9 — 12 juillet 2018
Stochastic Games 2
11 juil. 2018 10h40 – 12h20
Salle: salle H.101
Présidée par Piotr Wiecek
4 présentations
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10h40 - 11h05
Operator approach to values of stochastic games with varying stage duration
We study the links between the values of stochastic games with varying stage dura-
tion, the corresponding Shapley operators, and the solution of an
evolution equation in continuous time. Considering general non expansive maps we establish two
kinds of results, under both the discounted or the finite length framework, that apply to the class
of “exact” stochastic games. First, for a fixed length or discount factor, the value converges as
the stage duration go to 0. Second, the asymptotic behavior of the value as the length goes to
infinity, or as the discount factor goes to 0, does not depend on the stage duration. In addition,
these properties imply the existence of the value of the finite length or discounted continuous
time game (associated to a continuous time jointly controlled Markov process), as the limit of
the value of any discretization with vanishing mesh. -
11h05 - 11h30
Markov perfect equilibria in OLG models with risk sensitive agents
In this paper, we present an overlapping generation model (OLG for short) of resource extraction with a random production function, and an altruism having both paternalistic and non-paternalistic features. All generations are risk sensitive with a constant coefficient of absolute risk aversion. The preferences are represented by a possibly dynamic inconsistent dynamic recursive utility function with non-cooperating generations. Under general conditions on the aggregator and transition probability, we examine the existence and the uniqueness of a recursive utility function and the existence of a stationary mixed Markov Perfect Nash Equilibria.
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11h30 - 11h55
On Tauberian theorem for Nash equilibria
The report is devoted to $n$-player nonzero-sum dynamic games, which is not limited to e.g. differential games and could accommodate both discrete and continuous time. Assuming common dynamics, we study two game families with total payoffs that are defined either as the Cesaro average (long run average game family) or Abel average (discounting game family) of the running costs. We analyze asymptotic Nash equilibria---strategy profiles that are approximately optimal if the planning horizon tends to infinity in long run average games and if the discount tends to zero in discounting games. Moreover, we also assume that this strategy profile is stationary. Under a mild assumption on players' strategy sets, we prove a uniform Tauberian theorem for stationary asymptotic Nash equilibrium.
This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no.~17-11-01093). -
11h55 - 12h20
Discrete-Time Ergodic Mean Field Games with Average Reward on Compact Spaces
We present a model of discrete-time mean-field game with compact state and action spaces and average reward. Under some strong ergodicity assumption we show it possesses a stationary mean-field equilibrium. We show that in general the equilibrium strategy for this game is not always a good approximation of Nash equilibria of the n-person stochastic game counterparts of the mean-field game for large n. Finally, we identify some cases when the approximation is good.