Organizations require discretionary decision making to be delegated and to be under only partial scrutiny from supervisors. This introduces the possibility for agents to use their discretionary power to their own advantage and in detriment to the organization. We model this situation by...

A theoretical model of sequential first-price auctions where bidders are risk-averse and values are affiliated is developed. For constant risk-aversion utility functions and a particular specification of affiliation, closed-form solutions for the symmetric equilibrium of a sequence of k...