代理商业周期

Agency business cycles

Theoretical Economics · 2020
被引 18
人大 AABS 4

中文导读

提出企业为激励员工而随机决定是否解雇表现不佳者,且不同企业关联其随机化结果,导致内生且随机的总体经济波动。

Abstract

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 randomization to reduce the probability with which they fire nonperforming workers. Correlated randomization leads to aggregate fluctuations. Aggregate fluctuations are endogenous—they emerge because firms choose to randomize and they choose to randomize in a correlated fashion—and they are stochastic—they are the manifestation of a randomization process. The hallmark of a theory of endogenous and stochastic fluctuations is that the stochastic process for aggregate “shocks” is an equilibrium object.

内生经济波动随机波动企业随机化关联随机化