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Colonel Blotto games with a head start
2022
This paper studies Colonel Blotto games with two battle...elds where one player has a head start in the form of additional troops on one of the battle...elds. Such games arise naturally in marketing, electoral competition, and military con ‡ict. Sion and Wolfe (1957) have shown that, if the strategy space is continuous, a mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium need not exist. Therefore, we consider a ...nite approximation. Using the iterated elimination of (weakly) dominated strategies, we identify an
doi:10.5167/uzh-220546
fatcat:bqsn7ebr5fhz5lwtcaw7ordtrm