Continuous-time public good contribution under uncertainty: a stochastic control approach

DOI10.1007/S00245-016-9337-5MaRDI QIDQ2013930zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giorgio Ferrari, Frank Riedel, Jan-Henrik Steg

Publication date 10 August 2017

Published in Applied Mathematics and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2849

zbMATH Keywords

Nash equilibriumstochastic gamesirreversible investmentsingular stochastic controlfirst order conditions for optimalityfree-ridingpublic good contributionLévy processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Stochastic games, stochastic differential games (91A15) Dynamic games (91A25) Stochastic models in economics (91B70) Optimal stochastic control (93E20)

Abstract: In this paper we study continuous-time stochastic control problems with both monotone and classical controls motivated by the so-called public good contribution problem. That is the problem of n economic agents aiming to maximize their expected utility allocating initial wealth over a given time period between private consumption and irreversible contributions to increase the level of some public good. We investigate the corresponding social planner problem and the case of strategic interaction between the agents, i.e. the public good contribution game. We show existence and uniqueness of the social planner's optimal policy, we characterize it by necessary and sufficient stochastic Kuhn-Tucker conditions and we provide its expression in terms of the unique optional solution of a stochastic backward equation. Similar stochastic first order conditions prove to be very useful for studying any Nash equilibria of the public good contribution game. In the symmetric case they allow us to prove (qualitative) uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium, which we again construct as the unique optional solution of a stochastic backward equation. We finally also provide a detailed analysis of the so-called free rider effect.

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