Brian Roberson
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
71
Citations
1,567
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
41
Publishing since 1986
Brian Roberson works in theoretical economics, focusing on game theory applied to competitive resource allocation problems such as the Colonel Blotto game (a model of competition where multiple parties allocate limited resources across several battlefields), auctions, network defense, and political campaign competition. His work is mathematical and uses formal models to study strategic decision-making in contests, elections, and security settings.
Publication output has been modest and somewhat irregular over the last decade, with occasional gaps (e.g., 2023, 2025) followed by a cluster of new work appearing in 2026.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Existence of Equilibrium Mechanisms in Generalized Principal-Agent Problems with Interacting Teams
Chapman University Digital Commons (Chapman University) · 2026
- Existence of Equilibrium Mechanisms in Generalized Principal-Agent Problems with Interacting Teams
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- Existence of Equilibrium Mechanisms in Generalized Principal-Agent Problems with Interacting Teams
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- Public Debt and the Political Economy of Reforms
American Economic Journal Microeconomics · 2024
- Public Debt and the Political Economy of Reforms
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021
- Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto games
Economic Theory · 2020
- Costly force relocation in the Colonel Blotto game
Economic Theory Bulletin · 2020
- All-pay auctions with ties
Economic Theory · 2019
- THE OPTIMAL DEFENSE OF NETWORKS OF TARGETS
Economic Inquiry · 2018
- The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Public Choice · 2018
- The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2018
- Targeted campaign competition, loyal voters, and supermajorities
Journal of Mathematical Economics · 2017
- Wildfire Evacuation Timing in Southern California's Wildland-Urban Interface: Using Survival Analysis to Identify Differences in Resident Evacuation Behavior During the 2016 Blue Cut Fire
eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2017
- Targeted Campaign Competition, Loyal Voters, and Supermajorities
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017
- All-Pay Auctions with Ties
Chapman University Digital Commons (Chapman University) · 2016
- SSRN Electronic Journal×3
- Economic Theory×2
- Chapman University Digital Commons (Chapman University)×2
- arXiv (Cornell University)×2
- Economic Inquiry×1
- Martin Dufwenberg
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Ala Avoyan
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- John Morgan
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Rick Harbaugh
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Timothy N. Cason
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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