Coordinated Mean-Field Control for Systemic Risk

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The paper is primarily about central bank policy design and systemic risk management at the macroprudential level, not about trading strategies or market microstructure. However, understanding systemic risk dynamics, liquidity dispersion, and loss-of-control regimes could inform tail-risk hedging strategies, stress-testing frameworks, and macro-aware portfolio construction. The mean-field approach to modeling cross-sectional bank heterogeneity has indirect relevance for understanding market-wide liquidity conditions.

The theoretical framework is mathematically sophisticated (viscosity solutions, HJBI equations, coupled Riccati ODEs, propagation-of-chaos proofs). However, the numerical implementation is relatively straightforward: backward integration of 6 coupled Riccati ODEs using Radau IIA, followed by forward Euler simulation with control projection. The main complexity lies in correctly handling the coupling terms (kappa), projection boundaries, and ensuring Riccati stability conditions are met. No ML training or large-scale computation is required.

The paper provides complete parameter tables (Table 1), explicit algorithms (Algorithms 1-5), full Riccati ODE system (Eq. 10), terminal conditions (Eq. 8), and detailed proofs in appendices. The numerical implementation uses standard methods (Radau IIA, explicit Euler). However, no code repository is provided, and the simulation code is not publicly available. All mathematical derivations are self-contained.