Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46468 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3211
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest success functions (CSFs): the auction CSF and the lottery CSF. Consistent with the theoretical prediction, under the auction CSF, attackers utilize a stochastic 'guerilla warfare' strategy - in which a single random target is attacked - more than 80% of the time. Under the lottery CSF, attackers utilize the stochastic guerilla warfare strategy almost 45% of the time, contrary to the theoretical prediction of an equal allocation of forces across the targets.
Subjects: 
Colonel Blotto
conflict resolution
weakest-link
best-shot
multi-dimensional resource allocation
experiments
JEL: 
C72
C91
D72
D74
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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