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The Sumo coach problem

Published:2022-11-04 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1434-4742
Container-title:Review of Economic Design
language:en
Short-container-title:Rev Econ Design

Author:

Rehsmann Daniel^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractWe address the optimal allocation of stochastically dependent resource bundles to a set of simultaneous contests. For this purpose, we study a modification of the Colonel Blotto Game called the Tennis Coach Problem. We devise a thoroughly probabilistic method of payoff representation and fully characterize equilibria in this class of games. We further formalize the idea of strategic team training in a comparative static setting. The problem applies to several distinct economic interactions but seems most prevalent in team sports with individual matches, for instance, in Tennis and Sumo.

Funder

Austrian Science Fund

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10058-022-00316-4.pdf

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