This paper considers the political economy of employment protection and retirement age and analyzes interaction between labor market and the pension system. In the present scenario, young outsiders (unemployed) are the median group in the electorate. These voters choose the degree of employment...

The present paper analyzes a general class of first-price all-pay auctions where two players have different "bidding technologies" and one bidder has a head start advantage over his/her opponent. Prize values are common knowledge and may be different between the players. Equilibria are...

This note reconsiders the classical problem of precautionary saving in the presence of an interest-rate risk, and provides a new interpretation of the threshold of 2 for the relative prudence index, which characterizes the necessary and sufficient condition for precautionary saving

Extending a brand beyond its original product category is a major strategy for long-term profitability. A brand owner can internalize the development of the extension product, or license the brand to an external partner in order to exploit the licensee's better capabilities and higher efficiency...