4 papers
Peer Selection with Friends and Enemies
Francis Bloch, Bhaskar Dutta, Marcin Dziubiński
A planner wants to select one agent out of n agents on the basis of a binary characteristic that is commonly known to all agents but is not observed by the planner. Any pair of age…
Non-symmetric discrete Colonel Blotto game
Marcin Dziubiński
We study equilibrium strategies and the value of the asymmetric variant of the discrete Colonel Blotto game with battlefields, resources of the weaker player…
Strategic hiding and exploration in networks
Francis Bloch, Bhaskar Dutta, Marcin Dziubiński
We propose and study a model of strategic network design and exploration where the hider, subject to a budget constraint restricting the number of links, chooses a connected networ…
Interconnected Contests
Marcin Dziubiński, Sanjeev Goyal, Junjie Zhou
We study a two-player model of conflict with multiple battlefields -- the novel element is that each of the players has their own network of spillovers so that resources allocated…