Estimating policy functions in payments systems using reinforcement learning / by Pablo S. Castro, Ajit Desai, Han Du, Rodney Garratt and Francisco Rivadeneyra. : FB3-5/2021-7E-PDF

"This paper uses reinforcement learning (RL) to approximate the policy rules of banks participating in a high-value payments system. The objective of the agents is to learn a policy function for the choice of amount of liquidity provided to the system at the beginning of the day. Individual choices have complex strategic effects precluding a closed form solution of the optimal policy, except in simple cases. We show that in a simplified two-agent setting, agents using reinforcement learning do learn the optimal policy that minimizes the cost of processing their individual payments. We also show that in more complex settings, both agents learn to reduce their liquidity costs. Our results show the applicability of RL to estimate best-response functions in real-world strategic games"--Abstract, page ii.

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Ministère/Organisme Bank of Canada, issuing body.
Titre Estimating policy functions in payments systems using reinforcement learning / by Pablo S. Castro, Ajit Desai, Han Du, Rodney Garratt and Francisco Rivadeneyra.
Titre de la série Staff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, 1701-9397 ; 2021-7
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-21).
Information sur la publication Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, February 1, 2021.
©2021
Auteur / Contributeur Castro, Pablo S., author.
Description 1 online resource (ii, 40 pages) : colour graphs
Numéro de catalogue
  • FB3-5/2021-7E-PDF
Descripteurs Banks and banking.
Reinforcement learning.
Payment.
Banques.
Apprentissage par renforcement (Intelligence artificielle)
Paiement.
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