Article ID: | iaor1999189 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 327 |
End Page Number: | 334 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1998 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Ferguson Thomas S., Melolidakis Costis |
The Inspection Game is a multistage game between a customs inspector and a smuggler, first studied by Melvin Dresher and Michael Maschler in the 1960s. An extension allowing the smuggler to act more than once, treated by Sakaguchi in a special case, is solved. Also, a more natural version of Sakaguchi's problem is solved in the special case where the smuggler may act at each stage.