Control of McKean--Vlasov SDEs with Contagion Through Killing at a State-Dependent Intensity

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author Hambly, Ben
Jettkant, Philipp
author_facet Hambly, Ben
Jettkant, Philipp
contents We consider a novel McKean--Vlasov control problem with contagion through killing of particles and common noise. Each particle is killed at an exponential rate according to an intensity process that increases whenever the particle is located in a specific region. The removal of a particle pushes others towards the removal region, which can trigger cascades that see particles exiting the system in rapid succession. We study the control of such a system by a central agent who intends to preserve particles at minimal cost. Our theoretical contribution is twofold. Firstly, we rigorously justify the McKean--Vlasov control problem as the limit of a corresponding sequences of controlled finite particle systems. Our proof is based on a controlled martingale problem and tightness arguments. Secondly, we connect our framework with models in which particles are killed once they hit the boundary of the removal region. We show that these models appear in the limit as the exponential rate tends to infinity. As a corollary, we obtain new existence results for McKean--Vlasov SDEs with singular interaction through hitting times which extend those in the established literature. We conclude the paper with numerical investigations of our model applied to government control of systemic risk in financial systems.
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spellingShingle Control of McKean--Vlasov SDEs with Contagion Through Killing at a State-Dependent Intensity
Hambly, Ben
Jettkant, Philipp
Probability
Optimization and Control
Primary 60H10, 60H30, secondary 93E20, 60F17
We consider a novel McKean--Vlasov control problem with contagion through killing of particles and common noise. Each particle is killed at an exponential rate according to an intensity process that increases whenever the particle is located in a specific region. The removal of a particle pushes others towards the removal region, which can trigger cascades that see particles exiting the system in rapid succession. We study the control of such a system by a central agent who intends to preserve particles at minimal cost. Our theoretical contribution is twofold. Firstly, we rigorously justify the McKean--Vlasov control problem as the limit of a corresponding sequences of controlled finite particle systems. Our proof is based on a controlled martingale problem and tightness arguments. Secondly, we connect our framework with models in which particles are killed once they hit the boundary of the removal region. We show that these models appear in the limit as the exponential rate tends to infinity. As a corollary, we obtain new existence results for McKean--Vlasov SDEs with singular interaction through hitting times which extend those in the established literature. We conclude the paper with numerical investigations of our model applied to government control of systemic risk in financial systems.
title Control of McKean--Vlasov SDEs with Contagion Through Killing at a State-Dependent Intensity
topic Probability
Optimization and Control
Primary 60H10, 60H30, secondary 93E20, 60F17
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15854