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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213300
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The Optimal Defense of Networks of Targets
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2010
This paper examines a game-theoretic model of attack and defense of multiple networks of targets in which there exist intra-network strategic complementarities among targets. The defender’s objective is to successfully defend all of the networks and the attacker’s objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614978
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Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2010
This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed "battlefields." In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614980
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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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A Blotto Game with Multi-Dimensional Incomplete Information
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2010
In the Colonel Blotto game, each of two players simultaneously allocates his fixed budget of a resource across a finite number n of battleelds. Within each battlefield, the player that allocates the higher level of the resource wins the battlefield. Each player's payoff is equal to the sum of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294663
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Strategic Defense and Attack for Series and Parallel Reliability Systems: Comment
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2010
Hausken (2008a) formulates a contest-theoretic model of the attack and defense of a network of targets. This note identies a technical error that invalidates Hausken's characterization of Nash equilibrium for a substantial portion of the parameter space that he examines and provides necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646757
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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 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/10008678320