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Nonzero-sum stochastic impulse games with an application in competitive retail energy markets

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  • Ren'e Aid
  • Lamia Ben Ajmia
  • M'hamed Gaigi
  • Mohamed Mnif

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We study a nonzero-sum stochastic differential game with both players adopting impulse controls, on a finite time horizon. The objective of each player is to maximize her total expected discounted profits. The resolution methodology relies on the connection between Nash equilibrium and the corresponding system of quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs in short). We prove, by means of the weak dynamic programming principle for the stochastic differential game, that the value function of each player is a constrained viscosity solution to the associated QVIs system in the class of linear growth functions. We also introduce a family of value functions converging to our value function of each player, and which is characterized as the unique constrained viscosity solutions of an approximation of our QVIs system. This convergence result is useful for numerical purpose. We apply a probabilistic numerical scheme which approximates the solution of the QVIs system to the case of the competition between two electricity retailers. We show how our model reproduces the qualitative behaviour of electricity retail competition.

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  • Ren'e Aid & Lamia Ben Ajmia & M'hamed Gaigi & Mohamed Mnif, 2021. "Nonzero-sum stochastic impulse games with an application in competitive retail energy markets," Papers 2112.10213, arXiv.org.
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