Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields

Abstract

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.

Keywords: conflict, contest, battlefield, Colonel Blotto Game, auction, lottery

JEL Classification: C72, D74, H56