Waging simple wars: a complete characterization of two-battlefield Blotto equilibria

DOI10.1007/s00199-014-0807-1zbMath1319.91013OpenAlexW2004049492MaRDI QIDQ2256865

Nick Mastronardi, Scott T. Macdonell

Publication date: 23 February 2015

Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-014-0807-1

zbMATH Keywords

zero-sum gameall-pay auctionwarfareColonel Blotto gamemulti-unit auction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32)

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Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto games ⋮ \(N\)-dimensional Blotto game with heterogeneous battlefield values ⋮ Discrete Colonel Blotto games with two battlefields ⋮ Constrained contests with a continuum of battles ⋮ Limited capacity in project selection: competition through evidence production ⋮ The lottery Blotto game ⋮ The robustness of `enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend' alliances ⋮ The non-constant-sum Colonel Blotto game ⋮ Round-robin tournaments with limited resources ⋮ Pure strategy Nash equilibrium in 2-contestant generalized lottery Colonel Blotto games

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