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We consider the mean-field game where each agent determines the optimal time to exit the game by solving an optimal stopping problem with reward function depending on the density of the state processes of agents still present in the game.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Géraldine Bouveret , Roxana Dumitrescu , Peter Tankov

We study a networked economic system composed of $n$ producers supplying a single homogeneous good to a number of geographically separated markets and of a centralized authority, called the market maker. Producers compete \`a la Cournot, by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani , Leonardo Massai , Martina Vanelli

The classical Hotelling game is played on a line segment whose points represent uniformly distributed clients. The $n$ players of the game are servers who need to place themselves on the line segment, and once this is done, each client gets…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Avi Cohen , David Peleg

Generating payoff matrices of normal-form games at random, we calculate the frequency of games with a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium in the ensemble of $n$-player, $m$-strategy games. These are perfectly predictable as they must…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-03 Samuel C. Wiese , Torsten Heinrich

We consider strategic arrivals to a FCFS service system that starts service at a fixed time and has to serve a fixed number of customers, e.g., an airplane boarding system. Arriving early induces a higher waiting cost (waiting before…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Rajat Talak , D. Manjunath , Alexandre Proutiere

Several works have recently suggested to model the problem of coordinating the charging needs of a fleet of electric vehicles as a game, and have proposed distributed algorithms to coordinate the vehicles towards a Nash equilibrium of such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Dario Paccagnan , Francesca Parise , John Lygeros

We investigate a time-inconsistent, non-Markovian finite-player game in continuous time, where each player's objective functional depends non-linearly on the expected value of the state process. As a result, the classical Bellman optimality…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Dylan Possamaï , Chiara Rossato

Nash equilibria provide a principled framework for modeling interactions in multi-agent decision-making and control. However, many equilibrium-seeking methods implicitly assume that each agent has access to the other agents' objectives and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Mahdis Rabbani , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

In uniform-price markets, suppliers compete to supply a resource to consumers, resulting in a single market price determined by their competition. For sufficient flexibility, producers and consumers prefer to commit to a function as their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Abdullah Alawad , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Khaled Alshehri , Tamer Başar

Public goods games study the incentives of individuals to contribute to a public good and their behaviors in equilibria. In this paper, we examine a specific type of public goods game where players are networked and each has binary actions,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Sixie Yu , Kai Zhou , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

In general, Nash equilibria in normal-form games may require players to play (probabilistically) mixed strategies. We define a measure of the complexity of finite probability distributions and study the complexity required to play Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Edan Orzech , Martin Rinard

In this paper, we consider a mean field game (MFG) with a major and $N$ minor agents. We first consider the limiting problem and allow the coefficients to vary with the conditional distribution in a nonlinear way. We use the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang

We study nonzero-sum stochastic switching games. Two players compete for market dominance through controlling (via timing options) the discrete-state market regime $M$. Switching decisions are driven by a continuous stochastic factor $X$…

General Economics · Economics 2018-07-23 Liangchen Li , Michael Ludkovski

Network creation games model the creation and usage costs of networks formed by n selfish nodes. Each node v can buy a set of edges, each for a fixed price \alpha > 0. Its goal is to minimize its private costs, i.e., the sum (SUM-game,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Andreas Cord-Landwehr , Alexander Mäcker , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

We introduce a framework for stochastic games on large sparse graphs, covering continuous-time and discrete-time dynamic games as well as static games. Players are indexed by the vertices of simple, locally finite graphs, allowing both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Eyal Neuman , Sturmius Tuschmann

We construct Nash equilibria in feedback form for a class of two-person stochastic games of singular control with absorption, arising from a stylized model for corporate finance. More precisely, the paper focusses on a strategic dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Tiziano De Angelis , Fabien Gensbittel , Stéphane Villeneuve

The central result of classical game theory states that every finite normal form game has a Nash equilibrium, provided that players are allowed to use randomized (mixed) strategies. However, in practice, humans are known to be bad at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Pavel Hubáček , Moni Naor , Jonathan Ullman

We study a model of strategic coordination based on a class of games with incomplete information known as Global Games. Under the assumption of Poisson-distributed signals and a Gamma prior distribution on state of the system, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Behrouz Touri

This paper studies the n-player game and the mean field game under the CRRA relative performance on terminal wealth, in which the interaction occurs by peer competition. In the model with n agents, the price dynamics of underlying risky…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-02-10 Lijun Bo , Shihua Wang , Xiang Yu

In this paper, we introduce a preliminary model for interactions in the data market. Recent research has shown ways in which a data aggregator can design mechanisms for users to ensure the quality of data, even in situations where the users…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Tyler Westenbroek , Roy Dong , Lillian J. Ratliff , S. Shankar Sastry