We study a dynamic principal-agent relationship in which the agent receives a stochastic outside opportunity/offer each period and he cannot commit to not leaving the ongoing relationship.Termination, while costly, allows the principal to go to an external market to hire a new agent. We treat...

How important is financial development for economic development? A costly state verification model of financial intermediation is presented to address this question. The model is calibrated to match facts about the U.S. economy, such as intermediation spreads and the firm-size distribution for...