This article clarifies several issues raised by Stollmack (1979) concerning the Maltz- McCleary (1977) model of recidivism. In particular, the model is reformulated without using a "defective" distribution thus permitting the variance of the parameter estimates to be obtained.

Two auction mechanisms are studied in which players compete with one another for an exogenously determined prize by independently submitting integer bids in some discrete and commonly known strategy space specified by the auctioneer. In the unique lowest (highest) bid auction game, the winner of...