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A Principal-Agent Mean-Field Game Model of Insurance with Risk Interdependence

Optimization and Control 2026-07-19 v1

Abstract

We study an insurance contract-design problem under moral hazard, endogenous participation, and strategic risk interdependence. Because the resulting NN-agent game suffers from the curse of dimensionality, we approximate the strategic interactions via a heterogeneous mean-field game. We rigorously establish the existence of a lower-level mean-field Nash equilibrium using measurable selection arguments and the Kakutani fixed-point theorem. By proving the L1L^1-Lipschitz continuity of the aggregate participation threshold, we further establish equilibrium uniqueness via a contraction mapping. We then embed this mean-field response into the insurer's upper-level Stackelberg optimization problem. We formulate the objective through general performance envelopes to accommodate potential equilibrium multiplicity, proving the existence of upper-level ε\varepsilon-optimal contracts, and demonstrating the existence of an exact Stackelberg equilibrium under the uniqueness regime. We conclude by extending the model to finite contract menus, providing numerical evidence that multi-contract screening improves the principal's expected payoff in interdependent risk environments.

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@article{arxiv.2607.17214,
  title  = {A Principal-Agent Mean-Field Game Model of Insurance with Risk Interdependence},
  author = {Asaf Cohen and Ruolan He and Mingyan Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.17214},
  year   = {2026}
}