We consider competitive behaviour in sequential markets when current success or failure may affect the probability of future market opportunities. The analysis is conducted in a set up which may be interpreted as two private-value, sealed-bid, second-price sequential auctions. We demonstrate...

This paper identifies and attempts to fill a gap in the literature on rent-seeking. Many papers in the areas employ a logit win probability without considering whether or why such a choice should be reasonable. We present two approaches which can justify use of the common win probability.

Rank order tournaments are often presented as incentive devices: a tournament in which the hardest working individual gains promotion to the next level in a firms' hierarchy may induce workers to exert extra effort for example. In this paper, we consider a tournament in which workers are...

This paper lays out a simple open economy macromodel based on the recent literature on imperfect competition and equilibrium unemployment.

In recent years, the OECD has measured the structural rate of unemployment by an indicator called the Non-Accelerating Wage Rate of Unemployment. The NAWRU-indicator is an important element in the policy analysis of the OECD. The rise in the estimated NAWRUs is also taken as evidence that Nordic...