1. A class of N-player Colonel Blotto games with multidimensional private information
- Author
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Ewerhart, Christian, Kovenock, Dan, University of Zurich, and Ewerhart, Christian
- Subjects
information rents ,Bayes ,Gleichgewicht ,Colonel Blotto games ,Nash ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,generalized Dirichlet distributions ,Nash equilibrium ,private information ,ECON Department of Economics ,C72 ,D72 ,2604 Applied Mathematics ,10007 Department of Economics ,ddc:330 ,2209 Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Bayes-Nash equilibrium ,Bayes–Nash equilibrium ,TheoryofComputation_GENERAL ,Ressourcenallokation ,1803 Management Science and Operations Research ,Nash-Gleichgewicht ,Netzwerk ,330 Economics ,1712 Software ,D82 ,networks - Abstract
In this paper, we study N-player Colonel Blotto games with incomplete information about battlefield valuations. Such games arise in job markets, research and development, electoral competition, security analysis, and conflict resolution. For M Ï N + 1 battlefields, we identify a Bayes-Nash equilibrium in which the resource allocation to a given battlefield is strictly monotone in the valuation of that battlefield. We also explore extensions such as heterogeneous budgets, the case M È N, full-support type distributions, and network games. Revised version, February 2021
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- 2021