How can the tragedy of the commons be prevented?: Introducing Linear Quadratic Mixed Mean Field Games

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Autores principales: Dayanikli, Gokce, Lauriere, Mathieu
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author Dayanikli, Gokce
Lauriere, Mathieu
author_facet Dayanikli, Gokce
Lauriere, Mathieu
contents In a regular mean field game (MFG), the agents are assumed to be insignificant, they do not realize their effect on the population level and this may result in a phenomenon coined as the Tragedy of the Commons by the economists. However, in real life this phenomenon is often avoided thanks to the underlying altruistic behavior of (all or some of the) agents. Motivated by this observation, we introduce and analyze two different mean field models to include altruism in the decision making of agents. In the first model, mixed individual MFGs, there are infinitely many agents who are partially altruistic (i.e., they behave partially cooperatively) and partially non-cooperative. In the second model, mixed population MFGs, one part of the population behaves cooperatively and the remaining agents behave non-cooperatively. Both models are introduced in a general linear quadratic framework for which we characterize the equilibrium via forward backward stochastic differential equations. Furthermore, we give explicit solutions in terms of ordinary differential equations, and prove the existence and uniqueness results.
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spellingShingle How can the tragedy of the commons be prevented?: Introducing Linear Quadratic Mixed Mean Field Games
Dayanikli, Gokce
Lauriere, Mathieu
Optimization and Control
In a regular mean field game (MFG), the agents are assumed to be insignificant, they do not realize their effect on the population level and this may result in a phenomenon coined as the Tragedy of the Commons by the economists. However, in real life this phenomenon is often avoided thanks to the underlying altruistic behavior of (all or some of the) agents. Motivated by this observation, we introduce and analyze two different mean field models to include altruism in the decision making of agents. In the first model, mixed individual MFGs, there are infinitely many agents who are partially altruistic (i.e., they behave partially cooperatively) and partially non-cooperative. In the second model, mixed population MFGs, one part of the population behaves cooperatively and the remaining agents behave non-cooperatively. Both models are introduced in a general linear quadratic framework for which we characterize the equilibrium via forward backward stochastic differential equations. Furthermore, we give explicit solutions in terms of ordinary differential equations, and prove the existence and uniqueness results.
title How can the tragedy of the commons be prevented?: Introducing Linear Quadratic Mixed Mean Field Games
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08235