Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-14-2019

Abstract

We consider a class of incomplete-information Colonel Blotto games in which N 2 agents are engaged in (N + 1) battlefields. An agent’s vector of battlefield valuations is drawn from a generalized sphere in Lp-space. We identify a Bayes-Nash equilibrium in which any agent’s resource allocation to a given battlefield is strictly monotone in the agent’s valuation of that battlefield. In contrast to the single-unit case, however, agents never enjoy any information rent. We also outline an extension to networks of Blotto games.

Comments

ESI Working Paper 19-29

This paper later underwent peer review and was published as:

Ewerhart, C., & Kovenock, D. (2021). A class of N-player Colonel Blotto games with multidimensional private information. Operations Research Letters, 49(3), 418-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2021.03.010

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