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Mean field games of timing and models for bank runs

Probability 2017-01-24 v3 Economics

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to introduce a set of problems which we call mean field games of timing. We motivate the formulation by a dynamic model of bank run in a continuous-time setting. We briefly review the economic and game theoretic contributions at the root of our effort, and we develop a mathematical theory for continuous-time stochastic games where the strategic decisions of the players are merely choices of times at which they leave the game, and the interaction between the strategic players is of a mean field nature.

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@article{arxiv.1606.03709,
  title  = {Mean field games of timing and models for bank runs},
  author = {Rene Carmona and Francois Delarue and Daniel Lacker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03709},
  year   = {2017}
}