General Blotto: Games of allocative strategic mismatch

Public Choice

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 279-299

  Golman, Russell ^a   Page, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Game theory; Learning; Mixed strategies; Replicator dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849138740     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9359-x     Document Type: Article

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