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Published on: January 19, 2019
Mean-field games for marriage
Dario Bauso1, Ben Mansour Dia2, Boualem Djehiche3
1Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Gestionale, Informatica, Meccanica, Palermo, Italy.
Abstract:
This article examines mean-field games for marriage. The results support the argument that optimizing the long-term well-being through effort and social feeling state distribution (mean-field) will help to stabilize marriage. However, if the cost of effort is very high, the couple fluctuates in a bad feeling state or the marriage breaks down. We then examine the influence of society on a couple using mean-field sentimental games. We show that, in mean-field equilibrium, the optimal effort is always higher than the one-shot optimal effort. We illustrate numerically the influence of the couple's network on their feeling states and their well-being.
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