Working Paper

Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields

Dan Kovenock J., Brian Roberson
CESifo, Munich, 2010

CESifo Working Paper No. 3165

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.

CESifo Category
Empirical and Theoretical Methods
Keywords: conflict, contest, battlefield, Colonel Blotto Game, auction, lottery
JEL Classification: C720,D740,H560