An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games/
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.
An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games/ created by Subhasish M. Chowdhury, Dan Kovenock and Roman M. Sheremeta - Economic theory Volume 52, number 3 .
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support the main qualitative predictions of the theory. In the auction treatment, where winning a battlefield is deterministic, disadvantaged players use a “guerilla warfare” strategy that stochastically allocates zero resources to a subset of battlefields. Advantaged players employ a “stochastic complete coverage” strategy, allocating random, but positive, resource levels across the battlefields. In the lottery treatment, where winning a battlefield is probabilistic, both players divide their resources equally across all battlefields. However, we also find interesting behavioral deviations from the theory and discuss their implications.
0938-2259
Multi-dimensional resource allocation--Experiments--Rent-seeking
Colonel Blotto--Contest theory--Conflict resolution
HB119 ECO
An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games/ created by Subhasish M. Chowdhury, Dan Kovenock and Roman M. Sheremeta - Economic theory Volume 52, number 3 .
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support the main qualitative predictions of the theory. In the auction treatment, where winning a battlefield is deterministic, disadvantaged players use a “guerilla warfare” strategy that stochastically allocates zero resources to a subset of battlefields. Advantaged players employ a “stochastic complete coverage” strategy, allocating random, but positive, resource levels across the battlefields. In the lottery treatment, where winning a battlefield is probabilistic, both players divide their resources equally across all battlefields. However, we also find interesting behavioral deviations from the theory and discuss their implications.
0938-2259
Multi-dimensional resource allocation--Experiments--Rent-seeking
Colonel Blotto--Contest theory--Conflict resolution
HB119 ECO