Golosov, Michail Ju.; Menzio, Guido - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 1, pp. 123-158
We develop a theory of endogenous and stochastic fluctuations in economic activity. Individual firms choose to randomize over firing or keeping workers who performed poorly in the past to give them an ex-ante incentive to exert effort. Different firms choose to correlate the outcome of their...