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Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015
In this paper, we generalize the General Lotto game (budget constraints satisfied in expectation) and the Colonel Blotto game (budget constraints hold with probability one) to allow for battlefield valuations that are heterogeneous across battlefields and asymmetric across players, and for the...
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Electoral Poaching and Party Identification
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 20 (2008) 3, pp. 275-302
This article studies electoral competition in a model of redistributive politics with deterministic voting and heterogeneous voter loyalties to political parties. We construct a natural measure of `party strength' based on the sizes and intensities of a party's loyal voter segments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777818
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Is the 50-State Strategy Optimal?
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (2009) 2, pp. 213-236
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This article investigates...
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A Blotto game with multi-dimensional incomplete information
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - In: Economics Letters 113 (2011) 3, pp. 273-275
We examine a multi-dimensional incomplete information Colonel Blotto game in which each player’s n-tuple of battlefield valuations is drawn from a common n-variate joint distribution function that is uniform on the non-negative orthant of the surface of a sphere.
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Non-partisan ‘get-out-the-vote’ efforts and policy outcomes
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 728-739
This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote’ efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577676
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Ineffiziente Umverteilung und ineffiziente Umverteilungspolitik
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2008
aufweisen, ungeachtet des absoluten Effizienzniveaus der Transferzahlung. Aufgrund dieser Abhängigkeit von relativen und nicht … getätigten Transfers und der Summe der effektiv erhaltenen Transfers führen. Im Extremfall erhalten wir „black hole …“-Ineffizienz wie in Magee, Brock und Young (1989). Eine Erweiterung des Modells um loyale Wählersegmente, bei der Loyalität zu einer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367844
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Is the 50-state strategy optimal?
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2008
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This paper investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367867
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Coalitional Colonel Blotto games with application to the economics of alliances
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2008
kämpfen. Spieler A kämpft gleichzeitig in zwei Colonel Blotto-Spielen mit zwei verschiedenen Kontrahenten, B1 und B2. Die … jeweiligen Spieler B1 bzw. B2 in seinem eigenen Interesse eingesetzt wird und Seitenzahlungen im Anschluss an die Konfliktphase … ausgeschlossen sind. Es zeigt sich, dass es dennoch zu einseitigen und freiwilligen Ressourcentransfers der Spieler B1 und B2 im …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367901
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Non-partisan 'Get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2009
This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote’ efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367914
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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2010
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender’s objective is diametrically opposed .We apply two benchmark contest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728040