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Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2021

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...

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Suicide Terrorism and the Weakest Link

Arce, Daniel G.; Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2021

In this paper we examine a model of terrorism which focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has the ability to utilize either or both suicide and conventional terrorism tactics. The terrorist organization’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target. Success...

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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - In: Public choice 179 (2019) 3/4, pp. 175-194

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All-pay auctions with ties

Gelder, Alan; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2016

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The optimal defense of networks of targets

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2017 - Current version: August 2017

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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2017

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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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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...

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Strategic Defense and Attack for Series and Parallel Reliability Systems: Rejoinder

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2012

In our original comment, we showed that Hausken's characterization of Nash equilibrium is invalid for much of the parameter space examined and provided necessary conditions for his solution to hold. Most of the comments in his reply are either tangential or irrelevant. However, several of the...

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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 …

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