Firms often delegate important decisions to committees which are set up specifically for that purpose; for example selection committees. We analyze the equilibrium behavior of a game in which committee members (the players) interview candidates sequentially, either hiring or going on to the next...

This paper explores the sources of bargaining power in wage negotiations, and examines how productivity and training affect wages. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining, the negotiating partners are specified a priori, and thus it is impossible to address the question of how they achieve...

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...