The Colonel Blotto game

DOI10.1007/s00199-005-0071-5zbMath1107.91010OpenAlexW2010612033MaRDI QIDQ2505532

Publication date: 26 September 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-005-0071-5

zbMATH Keywords

all-pay auction redistributive politics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) 2-person games (91A05) Applications of game theory (91A80) Other game-theoretic models (91A40)

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