Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields

Authors

Dan Kovenock, Chapman UniversityFollow
Brian Roberson

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Description

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 battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict.

ISBN

9780195392777

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Keywords

Conflict, Contest, Battlefield, Colonel Blotto Game, Auction, Lottery

Disciplines

Economic Theory

Comments

Prepared for inclusion in the Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict edited by Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas

Recommended Citation

Kovenock, D., & Roberson, B. (2010). Conflicts with multiple battlefields. In M. R. Garfinkel & S. Skaperdas (Eds.), Oxford handbook of the economics of peace and conflict. Empirical and Theoretical Methods.

Peer Reviewed

1

Copyright

Oxford University Press