Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto games

DOI10.1007/S00199-020-01272-2zbMath1479.91008OpenAlexW3125894253MaRDI QIDQ825164

Brian Roberson, Dan Kovenock

Publication date: 17 December 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_papers/156

zbMATH Keywords

all-pay auctionGeneral Lotto gameColonel Blotto gameredistributive politicsmulti-battle contest

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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