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...

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...