Sun, Yiman - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 19 (2024) 1, pp. 29-60
We study the interaction between an agent of uncertain type, whose project gives rise to both good and bad news, and an evaluator who must decide if and when to fire the agent. The agent can hide bad news from the evaluator at some cost, and will do so if this secures her a significant increase...