level of resources across a set of contests. In the traditional formulation of the Colonel Blotto game, the players …' resources are use it or lose it" in the sense that any resources which are not allocated to one of the contests are forfeited … find that if the level of asymmetry between the players' budgets is below a threshold, then the unique set of equilibrium …

We study strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players. Our theoretical model of a …

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such … contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main … objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the …